Path and filename in text format

~/Dropbox/Recipes/BlueberryPie

Not sure if this will work in terminal:

right-click on the file in finder

hold down the alt (option) key

select 'copy (filename) as Pathname'

What command line app? What format does the app need? What you have typed above is the path to the file named. If you are looking to insert the relative path to a file on a web server it would look something like:

myname/Dropbox/Recipes/BlueberyPie.odf. If you were typing the path in terminal it would look something like:

myname/Dropbox/Recipes/Blueberry Pie.odf, It would likely look similar in your app.

Please be more specific about what you are trying to do and with what app.

You can search as well as I. Everything is explained here: https://www.firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/reference_manuals/user_manuals/ht ml/qsg3.html

I included this from the site:

For a Linux server:

servername:/filesystem-path/database-file

Example on a Linux or other Posix server named

serverxyz

serverxyz:/opt/interbase/examples/employee.gdb

Which is not for Windows. It is the same format used by your Mac. I did not put any CONNECT statements in my post, you injected those. Your question was about path name format and I responded to that question not a question about CONNECT statements.

It is the same file path. The tilde (~) is short for your Home folder (myname) in unix nomenclature.

It is exactly the same as what I posted. The ~ is shortcut for the users home directory. What does the app documentation say?

You can't use a mixture of forward and backward / \ in a path. Typically Windows uses backward \ such as C:\username\Recipes\Blueberry\Pie.odf. \ typically is an escape character to escape special characters such as spaces, quotation marks, etc. It looks like you have spaces in the path that you copied and pasted, hence the escape \.

From the FireBird site: https://www.firebirdsql.org/pdfmanual/html/qsg10-connecting.html

• For a Linux server:

  servername:/filesystem-path/database-file

  Example on a Linux or other Posix server named

  serverxyz

  :

  serverxyz:/opt/interbase/examples/employee.gdb

• For a Windows server:

  servername:DriveLetter:\filesystem-path\database-file

  Windows example:

  serverxyz:C:\Pr

MacOS is a UNIX machine beneath the Finder, and specifically when you are in the Terminal. In UNIX, filenames may not have a space, or certain other reserved characters, and these must be either escaped with an '\', or enclosed in double-quotes. Thus, dragging and dropping a Finder name with spaces such as below, will automatically get escaped in the Terminal:

Finder

All you can eat.txt

Terminal

/Users/username/All\ you\ can\ eat.txt

/Users/username/"All you can eat".txt

"/Users/username/All you can eat.txt"

In Finder, you can option-right-click on a filename, and on the secondary menu, you will see an item, Copy "All you can eat.txt" as Pathname. That will put the UNIX path on the clipboard. In the Terminal, you would enter a double-quote, a command-v to paste the path, and a trailing double-quote. You do this because Apple forgot to escape the white-space in the filename, and it will fail in Terminal without quotation.

This is why I never use white-space, or a dash '-' in a Finder created filename — so I never have to deal with the above issue in the Terminal.