[Gambas-user] Shell command including string containing a quote

[John Rose]

I have written a GUI to execute a command which involves selecting filenames (e.g. sCombinedPath below) to be used in a Shell command (as part of a Process). It works OK generally. However, if any filename includes a quote, it goes wrong.

sCommand = "mplex -f 8 -o " & "'" & sCombinedPath & "' " &
                                "'" & sVideoPath & "' " &
                                "'" & sAudioPath & "' " &
                                ">/dev/null 2>'" & sLogFilename & "'"
  Print sCommand
  hProcess = Shell sCommand



Any ideas please?

Project attached.

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Regards,
John

I read about using the Shell$ command to create a quoted string but I couldn't make that work. I've also tried a Replace$ command to replace a quote by a backslash followed by a quote. I couldn't get that to work.

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