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<br><div><div>On Jun 19, 2013, at 7:11 PM, Kenneth Brody <<a href="mailto:kenbrody@spamcop.net">kenbrody@spamcop.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On 6/19/2013 6:44 PM, James Flanagan wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I am trying to send a unix command that requires " ' " (single quote<br>characters) to encapsulate the data that is being added as metadata in a<br>file. I have tried using the " \ " prior to each single quote character, and<br>if I msgbox the uc variable from the code below, the resulting command<br>appears perfect. however, when uc is actually run by the system command, the<br>single quotes do not appear to be translated properly because I get a<br>message on the screen that says" Error - File not Found - bedroom". That<br>tells me that the single quotes are not being respected to keep "master<br>bedroom" as a single string. Therefore, exiftool misinterprets bedroom as<br>the filename due to the space character between master and bedroom.<br><br>I am using FilePro 5.7 on FreeBSD 9.0 p3.<br><br>I am hopeful that there is an easy solution to this. thank you very much,<br><br><br>::fn="/tmp/test.jpg":<br>::va="master bedroom":<br>::uc="/usr/local/bin/exiftool -q -iptc^AObjectName=\'"{va{"\'"<fn:<br>::system noredraw uc:<br></blockquote><br>I'm not on a *nix box at the moment, but IIRC the problem is that you need <br>to use a triple-backslash-quote in order for the shell to see backslash-quote.<br><br>See, for example:<br><br><br><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13689738/keeping-double-quotes-when-passing-string-to-popen-in-c">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13689738/keeping-double-quotes-when-passing-string-to-popen-in-c</a><br><br>(Yes, it's an article about "popen" and not "system", but the same basic <br>rules apply.)<br><br>I believe you need:<br><br> uc="/usr/local/bin/exiftool -q -iptc:ObjectName=\\\'"{va{"\\\'"<fn<br><br>As I said, I'm not on a *nix box at the moment, so I can't test it, but it <br>should be a simple test for you to try.<br><br>-- <br>Kenneth Brody<br>_______________________________________________<br>Filepro-list mailing list<br>Filepro-list@lists.celestial.com<br>Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Subscription Changes<br>http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>