Hello everybody,

I'm fairly new to PD and this is my first question in the forum. I hope somebody can help me, and sorry if this has been covered before (at least I haven't been able to find it).

I'm trying to send messages to the OSX terminal from PD; what I want to do is basically copying a certain file into a new path with a new name.

The text in my message is something like this:
cp ./jpeg/001.jpg ./output/NEW01.jpg

I have this connected to a shell object and I have a print STDOUT and print DONE objects to the left and right outlets just as I have seen on the PD help examples.

I checked my code and it and it works if I enter it directly on the Terminal, no problems here (being on the right directory in the first place of course).

I also tried to send a "cd" message to the shell object just before I send the other message, just in case PD wouldn't tell the Terminal wich folder we are in the first place.

The only noticeable difference is that in the console I see "DONE: 0" when I send the "cd" message and "DONE:1" when I send the "cp" message. but no files are copied in my system whatsoever.

What can I do?

I hope I made myself clear enough. Thanks in advance!

http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2007-10/055343.html
every time you give a message to [shell] it starts a new context apparently. I would suggest using the full path to the files you want to copy (like cp /Users/myname/Pictures/jpeg/001.jpg /Users/myname/Pictures/output/NEW01.jpg

also, the pwd is helpful to know where [shell] starts out (the root directory "/" on OSX)
I had luck doing cp /Users/sebshader/Pictures/actual_pictures/eatfish/IMG_4940.JPG /Users/sebshader/Pictures/actual_pictures/eatfish/NEW.JPG
but putting spaces in the path name didn't work when I tried using quotes, and you can't use \ easily in messages (i had to change the directory "actual pictures" to "actual_pictures")

Thanks a lot for your asnwer, it solved my problem!

I'll have to change the path if I'm on another computer but it's perfectly doable.