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Something I discovered today which may be some use to folks who want to use an embedded shell script in a Hazel action: make sure if you put double-quotes around a shell variable that you are actually putting straight double-quotes, not curly quotes.

It turns out that OS X will "correct" straight quotes into curly quotes if you have the option "Use smart quotes and dashes" ticked in the Keyboard prefpane under the "Text" tab.

I burned an hour or two wondering why my shell script was ignoring the quotes I was putting in (and blowing up grep) until I figured this out.

Happy Hazeling!

--sgp

Yes, this is an unfortunate side-effect of Mavericks. The next release will fix this where smart quotes will always be disabled in the script editors.