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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to build a command in a script Post 302254572 by babajuma on Tuesday 4th of November 2008 06:41:10 PM
Old 11-04-2008
How to handle the - in building a command in the sh script
Ok

i think i am hopefully focusing in on where the problem is.

when i print out $coffee_out at the end and look at it in a hex editor
the line looks like
splitmovie ...splitAt 3 ...self...contained ...o sdfsf.mov recode.mov.

Yet if i write it out by hand i get

splitmovie -splitAt 3 -self-contained -o sdfsf.mov recode.mov

It looks like i am not handling the - properly in the script

Any pointer would be gratefully appreciated

many thanks

michael
 

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px_set_targetencoding

PX_SET_TARGETENCODING(3)				     Library Functions Manual					  PX_SET_TARGETENCODING(3)

NAME

       PX_set_targetencoding -- Set encoding for output

SYNOPSIS

       #include <paradox.h>

       int PX_set_targetencoding(pxdoc_t *pxdoc, const char *encoding)

DESCRIPTION

       Sets  the  target  encoding  for  all  alpha  fields. It is used when data is retrieved from a record. The encoding must be a name as it is
       described by the man and info pages of recode or iconv		    whatever is used. A common value is `latin1' on Unix systems.  If  you
       do  not	set  the  encoding  the function PX_get_data_alpha(3) will return field data in the original encoding otherwise it will recode the
       field data.

       This function is a short cut form PX_set_parameter(pxdoc, "targetencoding", encoding) and is deprecated.

RETURN VALUE

       Returns -2 if recoding is not supported and a value < 0 in case of an error, otherwise 0.

SEE ALSO

       PX_get_data_alpha(3), PX_set_inputencoding(3), PX_set_parameter(3), iconv(1), recode(1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Uwe Steinmann uwe@steinmann.cx.

															  PX_SET_TARGETENCODING(3)
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