Hi Sami,
I see your point ...
+) quoting is expected when passing a command line string which need parsing
+) quoting comes as surprise when using an array of arguments
I have a look at the code ...
Cheers,
Siegfried Goeschl
sko...@free.fr wrote:
> Basically, my use case is to execute (on linux) :
> ffmpeg -i /tmp/myfile
> and in case of a space
> ffmpeg -i "/tmp/my file with spaces"
>
> Let's say I called ffmpeg using Runtime.exec, the command array I would pass
> would be :
>
> {"ffmpeg", "-i", "/tmp/my file with spaces"}
>
> now, using commons exec, I would intuitively do :
>
> - new CommandLine("ffmpeg").addArgument("-i").addArgument("/tmp/my file with
> spaces")
>
> However, this would be the equivalent of the following command array :
> {"ffmpeg", "-i", "\"/tmp/my file with spaces\""}
>
> so, ffmpeg does not get /tmp/my file with spaces but gets "/tmp/my file with
> spaces", and does not find the file as it does not interpret quotes, only the
> shell does.
>
> However, if I
> new CommandLine("ffmpeg").addArgument("-i", false).addArgument("/tmp/my file
> with spaces", false)
> => everything works fine
>
> regards,
> Sami Dalouche
>
> Quoting Siegfried Goeschl <siegfried.goes...@it20one.at>:
>
>
>> Hi Sami,
>>
>> not sure that I understand the problem
>>
>> +) commons-exec is basically Ant code so it does the all the things Ant
>> is doing, e.g. hard-to-understand quoting
>> +) inside the code it is pretty hard to distinguish between a file name
>> and a funny argument string (both containing spaces) so we assume that
>> this is a file name which need quoting
>> +) since quoting seems to be the #1 topic - please check
>> http://commons.apache.org/exec/faq.html#complex-quoting
>>
>> So I suggest
>>
>> +) have a look if you could solve your problem by avoiding a single
>> command line
>> +) describe your problems a bit more detailed
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Siegfried Goeschl
>>
>> sko...@free.fr wrote:
>>
>>> I did not notice all commons-* were using the same mailing-list, so here is
>>>
>> the
>>
>>> correct subject along with the original message
>>>
>>> Sorry for the inconvenience,
>>> sami
>>>
>>> ----- Forwarded message from Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> -----
>>> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:22:20 -0800
>>> From: Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com>
>>> Reply-To: Commons Developers List <dev@commons.apache.org>
>>> Subject: Re: API discussion: Quoting of arguments: why is it enabled by
>>> default?
>>> To: Commons Developers List <dev@commons.apache.org>
>>>
>>> Can you change your subject to start with [XYZ] and replace XYZ with
>>> the Commons project your question pertains to?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ralph
>>>
>>> On Feb 16, 2009, at 2:27 PM, sko...@free.fr wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am wondering why the quoting of arguments (if they contain spaces)
>>>> is enabled
>>>> by default.
>>>>
>>>> This is certainly not the behaviour I was expecting while using the
>>>> API, as
>>>> passing a filename as an argument will just fail if it is surrounded
>>>> with
>>>> quotes.
>>>>
>>>> regards,
>>>> sami dalouche
>>>>
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