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Asked: 2026-05-26T19:07:17+00:00

I have written a little Excel VBA report tool for my iPhone App sales.

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I have written a little Excel VBA report tool for my iPhone App sales.

To make it easier to use I would like to use the Autoingestion tool from Apple.

The Autoingestion tool from Apple gets activated like this (it’s a Java class) from the command line

java Autoingestion john@xyz.com letmein 80012345 Sales Daily Summary 20100204

How can I run this from within an VBA macro which would have to basically do this

cd - iPhone     <- this I dont know how to do correctly, since it always takes the "-" as a command, the directory name is "- iPhone"

java Autoingestion john@xyz.com letmein 80012345 Sales Daily Summary 20100204

There are basically two questions:

1. how to change into a directory called “- iPhone”?

2. how to launch a Java class command from inside Excel VBA

ps. I am using a MAC to do all this.

ps. I also tried cd “- iPhone” in the terminal, but this does not work either
Many thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    To answer your question:

    1. cd -- "- iPhone", the double-dash tells cd that it’s options end there, and directory names follow.
    2. Use the shell(command [, windowStyle]) call from the VBA API.

    Shell("cd -\ iPhone && java AutoIngest ...") is probably around what you’d be looking for. If it doesn’t work this way, try wrapping that in a sh -c "commands..." for the Shell call.

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