* Eric Blake (ebl...@redhat.com) wrote: > On 10/28/2017 06:44 AM, Programmingkid wrote: > > I'm trying to use an image file that has spaces in its file name (and > > sometimes in the path) to be used as a USB flash drive. When I try adding > > the image file using the drive_add command I see this error: drive_add: > > extraneous characters at the end of the line > > > > I have tried using single and double quotes around the file name but this > > does not help. Is there a way to use files that have spaces in it's name > > with drive_add? > > Not in HMP, which lacks quoting. (Unless you want to patch HMP to learn > quoting)
I think it's already got that code at least in some places. monitor_parse_arguments calls get_str, and get_str understands " wrapped arguments. drive_add 1 "file=foo bar" gives me: Could not open 'foo bar': No such file or directory so I think that's doing the right thing. Dave > But using spaces in filenames works fine in QMP. > > -- > Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer > Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 > Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org > -- Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilb...@redhat.com / Manchester, UK
