On Fri, 2021-03-26 at 16:00 +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote: > On Fri, 2021-03-12 at 19:20 +0100, Allister Sinclair wrote: > > I don't know if an external exists for that but you could use > > command > > lines from pd. > > (On linux I would use jack_connect and jack_disconnect commands > > through the [ggee/shell] object. > > Now, that [ggee/shell] reports the proper exit code, this seemed a > feasible approach. Not for long, though. There is no way around Pd > prepending each symbol with a backslash. So, it is impossible to > address a port like: > > "ardour:send 7/audio_in 1" > > Passing such a symbol to jack_connect through [shell] ends with: > > ERROR ardour:send\ 1/audio_out\ 1 not a valid port > > I remember a discussion going on github (can't find it right now) > about > whether the escaping with \ is an implementation detail that > shouldn't > be exposed to the user or the world outside of Pd. Now, I wonder > whether it is [shell] not dealing properly with escaped characters in > symbols, or whether the culprit is actually in Pd here. > > I'm not quite sure how to go on about this.
Ironically, when I want to execute the command from a real terminal, I need to escape the port names with \: jack_connect pure_data:output_1 ardour:A-0/audio_input\ 1 Roman
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