external application argument

[macNewbie]

Hi,
I'm building cocoa application which launch external command line application.
The command line requires file as an input and output as a file as well.
In the command line will be: nfbtrans <inputFile.txt >outputFile.txt which means take input from inputFile and store the result in outputFile. It works fine.
In cocoa, part of my program is as follows:

NSTask *task;
task = [[NSTask alloc] init];
[task setLaunchPath: @"/usr/local/bin/nfbtrans"];

NSArray *arg;
NSString *inFileArgument = @"</inputFile.txt";
NSString *outFileArgument = @">/out.txt";
arg = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:inFileArgument,outFileArgument, nil];
[task setArguments:arg];
[task launch];

The command line application launched but it said that the inputFile.txt doesn't exist. However, when I check in the directory, the file does exist. I suspect that it has problem with "<" character. Is that any special way to handle special characters arguments?

Thank you in advance.

 

[Ric]

Hi there and welcome !

first question...do you get this error when doing a 'Build and Run' in Xcode ?

Have you tried doing a Build and then quitting Xcode and Running the 'Built App' this may work...when looking at the 'Built' App in the Finder control click on it to see if the files are there...

regards

Ric

 

[Kaveman]

I think the @">" and the @"/inputFile" need to be separate things in the NSArray. Ones a switch the other a FilePath.