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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Compare two strings Post 302466711 by Scrutinizer on Wednesday 27th of October 2010 06:14:47 AM
Old 10-27-2010
A small typo: the middle -a should be a -o.

Perhaps a matter of taste, but I for one do not agree that this is easier to follow, I think the && and || and () syntax is clearer. Also, -a and -o are deprecated. See here
 

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dssi_osc_send(1)					      General Commands Manual						  dssi_osc_send(1)

NAME
dssi_osc_send - send OSC messages to DSSI applications. SYNOPSIS
dssi_osc_send <option> <OSC URL> <values> DESCRIPTION
dssi_osc_send sends DSSI OSC methods to DSSI applications. dssi_osc_send is typically used to control DSSI hosts (possibly for scripted operation), or to test DSSI user interfaces. OPTIONS
-c Send a `control' message. Requires two values to be supplied in the <values> section: control port and value. For example, to set control port 1 to 0.1: dssi_osc_send -c <OSC URL> 1 0.1 -p Send a `program' message. Requires two values to be supplied in the <values> section: bank and program number. For example, to select bank 0 program number 7: dssi_osc_send -p <OSC URL> 0 7 -m Send `midi' message. Requires four numbers to be supplied in the <values> section. For example, to send a note on, middle C, velocity 64: dssi_osc_send -m <OSC URL> 0 144 60 64 -C Send a `configure' message. The <values> are the key and value pair. For example, to send key `load' and value `/tmp/patches.pat': dssi_osc_send -C <OSC URL> load /tmp/patches.pat -s Send a `show' message. dssi_osc_send -s <OSC URL> -h Send a `hide' message. dssi_osc_send -h <OSC URL> -q Send a `quit' message. dssi_osc_send -q <OSC URL> -e Send a `exiting' message. dssi_osc_send -e <OSC URL> <OSC URL> The URL to connect to. For example: osc.udp://localhost:19383/dssi/test.1 osc.udp://my.host.org:10886/dssi/xsynth-dssi/Xsynth/chan00 SEE ALSO
dssi_osc_update(1). AUTHOR
This manual page was originally created by Mark Hymers from the help text of the application, for the Debian project (but may be freely used by others). January 5th, 2009 dssi_osc_send(1)
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