Macro in directory with a complicated name

Newbie
1

If I have a very simple macro named helloscript.cc in /Users/surrutiaquir/Downloads,

void helloscript()
{
  cout << "hello world!" << endl;
}

I’m able to run it smoothly:

$ root -l -b helloscript.cc
root [0] 
Processing helloscript.cc...
hello world!

However, if I move the file to a directory with a more complicated name (/Users/surrutiaquir/Dropbox/HEP/[Research] My Papers/[PUC] IDM at the LHC (inconcluso)/nyx) I get the following error:

root -l -b helloscript.cc
root [0]
Processing helloscript.cc...
Error in <TApplication::ExecuteFile>: macro helloscript.cc not found in path .:/Users/surrutiaquir/Software/Python/envs/root6/macros

What might be the reason? Thanks a lot for your input.

ROOT Version: 6.26/02
Platform: macosx64
Compiler: clang

2

Did you cd to that folder before running root ?

3

Yes, I did

4

That’s weird… can you do:

  1. cd the_directory_with_complicated_name
  2. pwd
  3. ls *.cc

?

5

This is odd. If I do

$ cd /Users/surrutiaquir/Dropbox/HEP/\[Research\]\ My\ Papers/\[PUC\]\ IDM\ at\ the\ LHC\ \(inconcluso\)/nyx
$ pwd
/Users/surrutiaquir/Dropbox/HEP/[Research] My Papers/[PUC] IDM at the LHC (inconcluso)/nyx
$ ls *.cc
helloscript.cc

everything works, but if I run

$ cd /Users/surrutiaquir/Dropbox/HEP/[Research] My Papers/[PUC] IDM at the LHC (inconcluso)/nyx
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('

I get that error message.

6

Yes, the 2nd cd does not work because the spaces are not escaped with \

7

Thanks a lot for the clarification!