Testing the ability to write metadata to files in Mac OSX. Any help would be appreciated as I know little about unix syntax.
In Terminal. Why does this work;
xattr -w com.apple.metadata:kMDItemDescription 'Somedescription' /somePath/someFile.pdf
but this does not;
xattr -w com.apple.metadata:kMDItemDescription 'Some\ description' /somePath/someFile.pdf
Obviously I will sometimes need to write to the metadata tag as a string that includes spaces. I would have thought that escaping the whitespace would work.