[SLUG] mplayer and symbols in file name

From: Steve (steve@szmidt.org)
Date: Mon May 10 2004 - 01:20:13 EDT


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Hi,

In my qwest to convert my .wma files to .ogg I'm a bit closer now, having
replaced thousands of spaces with underscore.

If I try to play a song from a script like this:

song="/home/s/MyMusic/mohmp3/enya.mp3"
mplayer "$song"

It does not work. From the cmdline I can type

mplayer /home/s/MyMusic/mohmp3/enya.mp3

it plays fine.

- From there you can also easily read the var $song and execute it with or
without quotes. So the script is obviously the problem. I've googled all
over but not found anyone who's run into the same problem...

Mplayers documentation says nothing about running it from a script, but
before subscribing to yet another list I thought I'd check if someone here
had run into this.

- --
Steve

"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety."
                                Benjamin Franklin

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