On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:09:08 -0200, Iain Mott wrote > Hi list, > > I have a script that needs to disconnect various jack connections. Works > fine with client/port names without spaces, like this: > > jack_disconnect pure_data_0:output0 system:playback_1 > > Other port names (specifically, ALSA MIDI port names) however have > spaces in them and don't seem to work with jack_disconnect. Have > tried putting quotes around the names, eg. > > jack_disconnect 'Pure Data:PureData Midi-Out 1' 'Hammerfall DSP:HDSP > MIDI 1' > > and > > jack_disconnect 'Pure Data':'PureData Midi-Out 1' 'Hammerfall DSP':'HDSP > MIDI 1' Why would you quote it like this? Shouldn't it be jack_disconnect 'Pure Data:PureData Midi-Out 1' .... With your way of quoting the shell would pass three arguments ('Pure Data', ':' and 'PureData Midi-Out 1') to jack_disconnect. Cheers, Ralf Mattes -- R. Mattes - Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg rm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user