HT2488 How to I insert text into a this command in automator wine "Text goes here" this is a perl script

Question

I have spent hours trying to figure this out, automator is the hardest thing to figure out. All I want to do is emulate me doing this
-Open terminal
-type wine
-drag and drop the location of an .exe file
-hit enter
Now this should be easy as all I have to do is do run shell script, insert argument and done, BUT IT DOESNT RECOGNIZE WINE!?!?! Pleas help me.
Let me clarify.
If I make an automator application that that runs the command "wine" and then inserts text into the space after that Then i will be set. But no matter what I do nothing works. If i set the shell to perl and pass input as argument....It doesnt work the $f and $@ stuff doesnt work.
Wine is likely not recognized because is is pearl based so I set it to pearl, but how do i pass and argument over to it?

Answer 1

Try
/opt/local/bin/wine "$@"
The "..." will protect the white space, but still allow $variable subsitutions.
The $@ will substitute all the files you drag as a group to your Automator app.
The notation "$@" does the substitution with each file properly quoted to protect the white space in the file path, but provide each file as its own quoted argument to the 'wine' command line.
If you need to invoke 'wine' once for each file of a group of files you drag on to your automator app, then use
for f in "$@"
do
     /opt/local/bin/wine "$f"
done
This will loop through each file of a group of files you drag onto your automator app, and invoke 'wine' once for each file in the group.