Using quotes in a AppleScript string

Question

I am working with AppleScript and need to do this:

set TextToWrite to \" #!/bin/bash cd \"$( dirname \"$0\" )\" java -server -Xmx4G -jar ./craftbukkit.jar\"          


        

Answer 1

To insert literal quotes into an Applescript string, you have to escape them, i.e.

set myString to "This is a \"quoted\" text."

AppleScript has the same convention as most languages, which is to use a backslash for escaping of special characters, of which there are only two: quotes and … backslash. See the section “Special string characters” of the AppleScript Language Guide.