The back slashs are because there is a space in Untitled Folder.

you can put a back slash before a space to tell unix that you want  
the space (or return or backslash to be part of the file name)

The second backslash is because I wanted to put a backslash in file  
name.

Sorry my laziness confounded the issue.  I just made a folder on the  
desktop and then dragged it into terminal and ran the command.

-Mark
Necessity is the mother of invention, but laziness is the father.

On Jan 16, 2006, at 10:26 AM, Chuck Pelto wrote:

> On Jan 16, 2006, at 7:22 AM, Mark Lively wrote:
>
>> do shell script "hdiutil create -srcfolder /Users/lively/Desktop/ 
>> untitled\\ folder/ /tmp/junk2.dmg"
>
> Where did this back-slashes come into the picture? None of the  
> message traffic, heretofore, mentioned such.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chuck
>