Cycling 74 » Topic: [shell] making a directory within applications? http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/shell-making-a-directory-within-applications/feed Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:12:14 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=2.2.4 http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/shell-making-a-directory-within-applications/#post-51376 <![CDATA[[shell] making a directory within applications?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/shell-making-a-directory-within-applications/#post-51376 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 08:33:38 +0000 Ben Carey Hi all,

Although very novice at shell commands/scripts, I’m using the [shell] external to create a directory from within a standalone application using the mkdir command on OS X. This is working fine to create folders in MOST directories.

However, the standalone application I’m building is supposed to live in a user’s Application directory, and I don’t seem to be able to use the mkdir command work in this directory (I can’t get it to work in Terminal either).

Is this a permissions issue? Is there anyone with some knowledge of shell scripts that may know a work around?

Thanks!

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/shell-making-a-directory-within-applications/#post-184213 <![CDATA[Re: [shell] making a directory within applications?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/shell-making-a-directory-within-applications/#post-184213 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 12:41:13 +0000 Ben Carey Update:

I seem to have found a way to fix this… the issue was coming from my formatting of paths, and have used [conformpath] to fix this and all seems to be working fine. I also found a way to keep spaces in my file names… thanks to this thread: http://cycling74.com/forums/topic.php?id=26909

Here is my working example that may be of use to others. The patch asks you to name a ‘session’. It then creates a folder of that name within the application directory.(/Applications/Max6 or the standalone directory).

– Pasted Max Patch, click to expand. –

Ben

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