nstask

I'm trying to get my NSTask to unzip a file for me. This works fine if the path has no spaces, but when it does, it can't find any of the files. I can't hardcode the " signs because I'm storing the zip file in a temporary folder, which is assigned by the system. Does anyone know how to achieve this? Here's my code: NSTask*task = [[NSTask alloc] init]; [task setLaunchPath:@"/usr/bin/unzip"]; NSArray*arguments = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:zipPath,@"-d",path,nil]; [task setArguments:arguments]; [task launch]; [task release]; Having a space in the argument does not look like your problem - note

I want to run dpkg ( or any other binary library files from cydia in the /bin or /usr/bin directories) from a GUI app with an icon, like mobileterminal, ifile, myfile, cydia, alertscript, and so many others can. How do they accesses the libraries? This code works, and the stdout of the process is printed in nslog but then it immediately crashes with Segmentation fault: 11. this is in my viewdidload function. This DOES NOT OCCUR IN THE SIMULATOR, only my iPhone 4. weird. have tried running as both mobile and root. the app is under /Applications folder. Here's my code. EDIT: I'm using the snow

I have a multithreaded program that needs to run many executables at once and wait for their results. I use [nstask waitUntilExit] in an NSOperationQueue that runs it on non-main thread (running NSTask on the main thread is completely out of the question). My program randomly crashes or runs into assertion failures, and the crash stacks always point to the runloop run by waitUntilExit , which executes various callbacks and handlers, including—IMHO incorrectly—KVO and bindings updating the UI , which causes them to run on non-main thread (It's probably the problem described by Mike Ash ) How

I'm using NSTask to execute a series of long running commands like so: commandToRun = @"command 1;command2"; NSArray *arguments = [NSArray arrayWithObjects: @"-c", commandToRun, nil]; self.task = [[NSTask alloc] init]; [self.task setLaunchPath: @"/bin/sh"]; [self.task setArguments: arguments]; [self.task launch]; This creates a process for the shell, and a child process for whichever command is running at the time (command 1 or command 2). If I kill the task with [self.task terminate] it only kills the parent process. Is there a way to identify and kill the children too? It's not exactly

I'm trying to run a simple bash script using NSTask and direct the output to a text view. Once the task is executed, the CPU usage of my app is 100%, even though it's a simple echo (for now). I created a completely fresh project to isolate the issue: @interface AppDelegate () @property (nonatomic) NSTask *task; @property (nonatomic) NSPipe *pipe; @end @implementation AppDelegate - (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(NSNotification *)aNotification { self.pipe = [NSPipe pipe]; self.pipe.fileHandleForReading.readabilityHandler = ^(NSFileHandle *h) { NSLog(@"Read: %@", [h readDataToEndOfFile]); }