Dexter > What if you escaped the space with a backslash? Carl > quote the argument, weakly > echo "$g"
I appreciate your guesses, but had tried them already, and tried them again (assuming I understand correctly) for example, all of these choke too: g="-draw 'line 10,10,20,20'" convert "$g" test_01.tif out.jpg g='-draw "line 10,10,20,20"' convert "$g" test_01.tif out.jpg g='draw "line 10,10,20,20"' convert -"$g" test_01.tif out.jpg g='draw "line 10,10,20,20"' convert "-$g" test_01.tif out.jpg The light quoting elicits an error, albeit a different one -- convert reports that it does not recognize the option `-draw "line 10,10,20,20"' while escaping the space has no effect. this is what I am working with: ## bash --version GNU bash, version 3.00.0(1)-release (i586-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ## convert -version Version: ImageMagick 6.0.7 03/11/05 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2004 ImageMagick Studio LLC If you get one to work, please let me know. Thanks in advance, Mike -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
