Re: Mishandling of weird characters in file arguments?

Couldn't you just quote the file:
ecasound -i:"file,name,here.mp3"

DAVE

--- Kai Vehmanen <kvehmanen <at> eca.cx> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, icosa atropa wrote:
> 
> > I'm using ecasound v2.4.2, packaged with
> Ubuntu breezy; I took a peak
> [...]
> > Ecasound dependably chokes on files
> containing weird characters,
> > commas in particular.
> [...]
> >> ecasound -i     
> "snip/22-Drum_Machine,_Cello,_Headwrap.mp3"
> >> ecasound -i     
> snip/22-Drum_Machine\,_Cello\,_Headwrap.mp3
> >> ecasound -i     
> snip/22-Drum_Machine,_Cello,_Headwrap.mp3
> > do *not* work, failing with the comment
> > "Audio object 'snip/22-Drum_Machine' does not
> match ..."
> 
> yeps, this is unfortunately true. Most of the
> filename handling bugs are 
> fixed, but this comma issue still persists (and
> actually is mentioned in 
> the BUGS file).
> 
> But this should really be fixed. The problem is
> that ecasound uses commas 
> to separate the arguments, and escaping is
> handled before the tokens are 
> given to the parser (so the parser can't
> separate filename commas from 
> param separator commas). So it's a little bit
> more work... I added a 
> sf.net ticket for this so it's not forgotten:
> 
>
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1456510&group_id=4605&atid=104605
> 
> > The bummer is that " -i snip/*.mp3" fails for
> the whole directory, and
> > there's no direct protection that I can think
> of ( though I haven't
> > yet fully plumbed bash's "for i in" idiom)
> 
> This won't work - you can only specify one file
> with a single '-i'. You 
> can have multiple files in a session, but then
> you have to additionally
> specify how they are to be connected.
> 
> If you just want to play bunch of files, use
> for example:
> 
> sh> ecaplay *.mp3
> 
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> 
> 
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