On Tue, Sep 29, 2026 at 10:00:41AM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > I am trying to generate some 'fake' input using xte (and then xdotool > which shows exactly the same issue). I can get most characters OK but in > this particular case I need to send some double-quote " characters and > these appear in the output as @. > > So, for example:- > > chris$ echo 'str string "quoted string" string' | xte > chris$ string @quoted string@ string
[...] Hm. No experience with xte; a tiny bit with xdotool. I'm not seeing this: tomas@caliban:~$ xdotool type 'foo"bar' foo"bartomas@caliban:~$ foo"bar (the doubling of foo"bar is due to the shell echo). So the " stays a ". What am I holding wrong? Cheers -- t
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