Right, yea, it was all a mistake I made and I thought the parenthesis were
the culprits... Thanks anyway!!!
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On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 8:48 AM, andrew cooke <and...@acooke.org> wrote:
> just playing around, it seems to me like julia is escaping with slashes.
> i don't have imagmagick installed, but with echo it woks as expected:
>
> julia> run(`echo \(`)
> (
>
> julia> run(`echo \\(`)
> \(
>
> julia> ^D
> andrew@netbook:~> echo (
> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
> andrew@netbook:~> echo \(
> (
> andrew@netbook:~> echo \\(
> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> andrew@netbook:~> echo \\\(
> \(
>
> the two julia commands give results equivalent to `\(` and `\\\(` in bash.
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> On Friday, 15 May 2015 00:41:24 UTC-3, Yakir Gagnon wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm trying to run an external imagemagick command. As such, it needs to
>> include some escaped parenthesis. In shell it would look like this:
>>
>> convert img.png \( -clone 0 -crop 450x+450+0 -dither None -remap
>> colormap1.png \) \( -clone 0 -crop 450x+951+0 -dither None -remap
>> colormap2.png \) -delete 0 z%d.png
>>
>> But when I build something like this in julia:
>>
>> cmd = `convert $fname ( -clone 0 -crop wx+$(w+1)+0 -dither None -remap
>> colormap1.png ) ( -clone 0 -crop 450x+$(sz[1]-w+1)+0 -dither None -remap
>> colormap2.png ) -delete 0 z%d.png`
>>
>> the parenthesis don't get escaped (as they should be).
>>
>> This is not the first time I've gone crazy over this issue. Any ideas?
>>
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