Re: Bash and Single Quotes

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Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 10Jan2009 22:34, RGH <rgheck@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm trying to write a shell script to convert video files using vlc and avidemux, and I've run into a problem. I need to be able to do something like this:

vlc -v -I dummy $FIL --sout='#transcode{vcodec=dummy,acodec=mp3,ab=192}:std{access=file,mux=dummy,dst="$MP3"}'

an alternative:

--sout='#transcode{vcodec=dummy,acodec=mp3,ab=192}:std{access=file,mux=dummy,dst='"$MP3"'}'

Joachim Backes <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

vlc://quit

But of course this doesn't work because the $MP3 variable doesn't get expanded in single quotes. The single quotes seem to need to be there to protect the "{", though. So, how can this be done?

No, they don't. They're there to protect the double quotes, presuming
you literally need double quotes in the --sout= option value.

You want to use double quotes.
If you want literal double quotes, escape them, eg:

  --sout="#transcode...,dst=\"$MP3\"}"

(replace ... with the other stuff I left out)

Cheers,


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Joachim Backes <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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