unexpected EOF error

[pedroparamo]

What does it mean when I get the error

do shell script "exiftool '-keywords=Men's Basketball, YU, Sports, ,' '/Volumes/Photo [Work]/OpenEdit/test/64008C-09.jpg'"
      "Finder got an error: sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''


I'm using a shell script within applescript that uses exiftool to take the existing  metadata of a file and modify it.  It works on some of my files but with others I get this error message.  I can't seem to figure out why?  Is this a (exiftool) syntax error or what?

Thanks.

Pedro

[Phil Harvey]

It's the apostrophe in "Men's" that is causing the problem.  The joys of quoting rules.  The bourne shell does not allow single quotes to be escaped in a single-quoted argument, so you must use double quotes around it.  To do this you will have to figure out a way to escape double quotes in your mac script.

- Phil

[pedroparamo]

Thanks!  I would have never figured this out...

Pedro

[Phil Harvey]

On a different note, it may be useful for you to read FAQ number 17 to see how to write list-type tags properly.

- Phil

[Phil Harvey]

Ah.  From your thread in the Apple discussion list I see this is done in a Mac script with:

set keywordStr to quoted form of keywordStr

Neat.  I should have known this.

- Phil