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Bug 190561 - NB in an Applications subfolder containing an apostrophe won't start up
Summary: NB in an Applications subfolder containing an apostrophe won't start up
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Launchers&CLI (show other bugs)
Version: 6.x
Hardware: Macintosh (x86) Mac OS X
: P4 normal (vote)
Assignee: Antonin Nebuzelsky
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Reported: 2010-09-23 13:54 UTC by halfer
Modified: 2010-11-01 15:08 UTC (History)
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Description halfer 2010-09-23 13:54:57 UTC 
I’ve found that if the NetBeans executable is in a path containing an apostrophe, it pops up in the dock and then dies quickly – regardless of whether it’s started from the dock or the CLI. I placed the Netbeans download in "/Applications/Jon's stuff/".

I’m running version 9.6.1 of NB and 10.6.3 of OS X. Java is 1.6.0_17.

This is the syslog that results:

Sep 22 21:15:11 milly [0x0-0xc80c8].org.netbeans.ide.baseide.201007282301[27915]: /Applications/Jon's stuff/NetBeans 6.9.1.app/Contents/MacOS/../Resources/NetBeans/bin/../platform/lib/nbexec: eval: line 535: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
Sep 22 21:15:11 milly [0x0-0xc80c8].org.netbeans.ide.baseide.201007282301[27915]: /Applications/Jon's stuff/NetBeans 6.9.1.app/Contents/MacOS/../Resources/NetBeans/bin/../platform/lib/nbexec: eval: line 536: syntax error: unexpected end of file

Feel free to email me if you need more info.
Comment 1 Jesse Glick 2010-10-15 15:13:17 UTC 
Probably not easily fixed in Bourne shell script land. I would just recommend not doing this.
Comment 2 Antonin Nebuzelsky 2010-11-01 15:08:42 UTC 
Agreed with Jesse.