09-27-2008
Single quotes prohibit expansion. If you make a variable out of the "$vhook/drawtext.so etc etc" line then you could use that variable as -vhook "${variable}" and keep things together. (Also see html/index.html and
Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide)
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