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Operating Systems Solaris Reason why some commands need escaped-characters and other not Post 302463683 by doublefrangelic on Monday 18th of October 2010 08:20:28 AM
Old 10-18-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by jlliagre
There is neither a comma nor an equal sign appearing in the first command line so obviously no need to escape them within it.

The commas and equals signs appear in the file names and folders, and these appear within the listoffiles.txt input file

apologies, I only noticed now that the comment
# (this command does need to have the equals and commas escaped
preceded the wrong line. It is meant to be before the rm command.

---------- Post updated at 01:49 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:46 PM ----------

I have edited the script in my post, and it now appears as it should be.

The question remains

Thank you

---------- Post updated at 02:20 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:49 PM ----------

OK, my apologies, I have not solved the problem but my question is irrelevant.

I discovered that the problem I am experiencing occurs whether or not the file names are escaped.

The filenames are corrupted in the results of the rm command-line and many were corrupted close to the equals signs and commas
The issue occurs intermittently so I assumed it had something to do with escaping the characters.
Now to figure out why.. thanks Anyway for the assistance
 

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photon

PHOTON(1)																 PHOTON(1)

NAME

       photon - generates photo albums

SYNOPSIS

       photon [OPTIONS] [PATH]

DESCRIPTION

       Photon generates clean, yet configurable, static HTML photo galleries. All of the work is done from the command line, and the resulting
       output can easily be configured by changing the template files found in /usr/share/photon/templates.

       To create a new template (skin), first create a new directory:

	  mkdir -p ${HOME}/.photon/templates/my_theme/

       Then copy the contents of /usr/share/photon/templates/photonv1/ to this new directory.  Photon only needs three files to build pages:

       index.html
	  used to display the content of a folder

       image.html
	  used to display the page for an image

       movie.html
	  used to display the page for a movie

       If a file is missing, then photon will throw an error and will not run.

HOW TO BUILD A GALLERY

       Quick start
	  $ photon -o myoutputdir /photos

       Use the gimp plugin
	  $ photon --resize-plugin=gimp -v -o myoutputdir /photos

       Change the size for all images and the thumbnail and keep the original photo
	  $ photon --sizelist=0,1600x1200,800x600 --thumbsize=320x240 -o myoutputdir /photos

       Create a gallery from your custom template (skin)
	  $ photon -k my_theme -o myoutputdir /photos

       See photon help
	  $ photon --help

OPTIONS

       -a | --awstats
	  Insert Javascript for Awstats

       --awstats-url=URL
	  Change default value for Awstats script url

       -c NAME | --comment
	  Name of the comment file (default .comments)

       -d NUM | --display-columns=NUM
	  Number of columns in index (default 3)

       -E | --no-exif
	  Don't include EXIF information in HTML file

       -f | --force
	  Overwrite non-image generated files (html, javascript, etc) (default no)

       -ff | --force --force
	  Overwrite image files (default no)

       -h | --help
	  Print this help

       -I | --no-index
	  Do not generate the high level index.html

       -J | --no-javascript
	  Do not use javascript (no shortcuts, ... )

       -k | --skin=THEME
	  Skin selector (default photonv1)

       --print-skins
	  Print out available skins (templates)

       -l NUM | --display-lines=NUM
	  Number of lines in index (default 5)

       -m | --movie
	  Movie mode, include link to movie (*.mov)

       -o NAME | --output-directory=NAME
	  Name of the output directory

       -s LIST | --sizelist=LIST
	  Image sizes (default 0,1024x768,800x600,640x480). Zero, which is the default, uses the original resolution. W x H specifies the width
	  and height of the image in pixels.

       -t SIZE | --thumbsize=SIZE
	  Size of thumbnails (default 160x120)

       -v | --verbose
	  Verbosely print information

       -V | --version
	  Print program version number

       -z | --compress
	  Compress the original image if selected (default copy the image)

       --exif-bordercolor=COLOR
	  Exif window border color (default #008000)

       --exif-bgcolor=COLOR
	  Exif window background color (default #f0fff0)

       --exif-fgcolor=COLOR
	  Exif window text color (default black)

       --body-bgcolor=COLOR
	  Body background color (default #ccccff)

       --img-bgcolor=COLOR
	  Image background color (default white)

       --exclude=PATTERN
	  Exclude files matching PATTERN

       --resize-plugin=PLUG
	  Where PLUG is the program used to create thumbnails internal: fastest method (default) gimp: use Gimp>1.x (better quality)

       --resize-quality-low=NUM
	  Quality for small image. 0 (bad) and 100 (good)

       --resize-quality-high=NUM
	  Quality for big image 0 (bad) and 100 (good)

       --gimp-program=PROG
	  use PROG for gimp

SHORTCUTS WHILE VIEWING AN IMAGE

	  n/SPACE     Go to the next image (with the same resolution)
	  p/BACKSPACE Go to the previous image (with the same resolution)
	  s	      Start/Stop the slideshow
	  +/-	      Increase/Decrease by one second the slideshow's period
	  h	      Show shortcut and help
	  i	      Show Exif information
	  z	      Change to the higher resolution [NOT YET IMPLEMENTED]

SEE ALSO

	  gimp(1)

AUTHOR

	  Written by Luc Saillard, <luc@saillard.org>

	  Main web site: http://www.saillard.org/programs_and_patches/photon/

	  This manual page was written by Kevin Coyner <kcoyner@debian.org> for the Debian project but may be used by others.

								    12/16/2006								 PHOTON(1)
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