solved [SOLVED] Alfred Workflow to Copy a Folder from Dropbox Location to Desktop

[afordturtle]

Hi. I'm looking to create an Alfred workflow that copies a template folder from its location in Dropbox to my Desktop. The folder path to be copied is follows:

/Users/aaronriddle/Dropbox (Personal)/Aaron Riddle Photography/Video/Virginia Elope Video Template

I want to copy it to my Desktop path as follows:

/Users/aaronriddle/Desktop

I tried doing this via terminal using the below script:

 cp -a /Users/aaronriddle/Dropbox (Personal)/Aaron Riddle Photography/Video/Virginia Elope Video Template. /Users/aaronriddle/Desktop/

However, it gives me the following error:  

zsh: no matches found: (Personal)/Aaron

Can someone point out what is wrong with the terminal script, OR suggest if there is a better way to do this? 

 

Thank you for your help!

[vitor]

2 hours ago, afordturtle said:

Can someone point out what is wrong with the terminal script

 

When you do cp -a /Users/, the shell knows that cp, -a, and /Users are different arguments because they have spaces between them. So how is the shell supposed to know that Dropbox (Personal) is part of the same argument, and not Dropbox and (Personal)?

 

The answer is quoting:

 cp -a '/Users/aaronriddle/Dropbox (Personal)/Aaron Riddle Photography/Video/Virginia Elope Video Template' '/Users/aaronriddle/Desktop/'

 

[afordturtle]

@vitor - awesome! Thank you and works like a charm.