On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Andre Bieler <andre.biele...@gmail.com> wrote: > I want to generate a command for imagemagick and use options loaded from a > file. > So the number of utilized options is not known beforehand. > > An example might look like: > > convert -density 300 somefile.pdf -depth 10 somefile.jpeg > > It is easy to generate the string above, but when interpolating it > into a command it gets quoted because of the spaces. > > So > > s = "convert -density 300 somefile.pdf -depth 10 somefile.jpeg" > run(`$s`) > > does not work. Is there an easy way to omit quoting? > Or how to generate the command when having vectors of keyword : value pairs > such as > > kw = ["-density", "-depth"] > vals = [300, 8] > > (assuming for now that all these options simply follow each other in one > place of > the command) > > Thanks for the help.
Interpolate in the command and not the string you can do `command $option` where option is a string or an array of string. > > Andre
