Unable to get filename with basename

Hi,

I'm learning how to write some simple scripts with Hazel and am having trouble with what I thought is fairly basic.

I'm triggering this script when the file Budget.numbers is detected in /Users/xxxx/Documents/Personal Docs/

This is script

Code: Select all: filename=$(basename “$1”) echo $1 echo $filename

The results I get from the log file is:

/Users/xxxx/Documents/Personal Docs/Budget.numbers
Personal

Why is my $filename output "Personal" instead of "Budget.numbers"?

This is a bit outside of Hazel support, but I think it's related to the fact that $1 contains a space. Also, it looks like you are using "smart quotes" around $1. Not sure if that's just how you formatted it in the post or how it actually appears in the script.

That was just the format in the forum post.

Also, if I run this script as a standalone outside of Hazel, it works fine.

Ok, did some more testing. If I remove the spaces in the affected directory, then the script works.

Are you using Mavericks? Smart quotes was being applied automatically for me after the upgrade. It looks like a new default in System Preferences > Keyboard > Text > Use smart quotes and dashes has been added.

Yes, this is an unfortunate change. This will be properly fixed in the next update.

Hold on guys, lets get back to the problem which is that Hazel fails this basic command when there are spaces.

That's a problem, no?

No, that was not the problem. The smart quotes in the script was causing the failure and Hazel's editor was fixed to turn them off. If you have an example indicating otherwise, please post it.

From what uncompressed said the smart quotes where just a forum thing and the script worked fine outside Hazel.

When I run basename through applescript it doesn't return the correct thing due to the spaces in folder and filenames.
Anyway I've resorted to using sed 's/.*\\///'" .

Not a forum thing. The script editor in Hazel was adding the smart quotes.