Do Shell Script to unzip on M1 Mac with spaces in path name

[Mike Matthews - Omnis]

Hello All,

I’m trying to use a Shell Script to unzip a file on an M1 Mac.  When I use the $runapplescript() command, it errors.

The problem is the path, it has spaces in the folder names.

If I move the Zip file up, where there are no spaces in the folder names, all is good, mostly.  I do get this error:
Expected “"” but found unknown token.

I have tried escaping the spaces with %20, single \ and double \\, all to no joy.

If I paste the same command into Terminal, all is good, when I use the singe \ char as the escape code, I can use the CD command and then Unzip.

So how do you deal with the spaces properly?

This is good:
tell application "Terminal"
do script "cd /Users/mike/Library; unzip -o studioworks.zip"
end tell

But this fails:
tell application "Terminal"
do script "cd /Users/mike/Library/Application\ Support/SQLWorks/SQLWorks\ v10221-31840\ Dev/Lineal\ SQLWorks\ Startup/Lineal\ SQLWorks\ Folder; unzip -o studioworks.zip"
end tell

I have also tried this script using ShellScript from the Finder, still the same issue:
tell application "Finder"
do shell script "cd /Users/mike/Library/Application\ Support/SQLWorks/SQLWorks\ v10221-31840\ Dev/Lineal\ SQLWorks\ Startup/Lineal\ SQLWorks\ Folder; unzip -o studioworks.zip"
end tell

Thanks

Mike Matthews

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