[Bug 1832922] Re: cannot use growisofs to write iso image

2019-06-15 Thread Hugo van der Sanden
For 'echo -n x"$IFS"x | od -c' I get: 000 x \t \n x 005 But based on your comments it seems quite likely I actually invoked it as '/dev/sr0 image.iso'. It is common to treat such things the same whether it's a single '='-separated argument to two separate arguments, and my cursor

[Bug 1832922] Re: cannot use growisofs to write iso image

2019-06-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i made experiments with shell variable IFS which can declare '=' to be white space. When i do echo -n x"$IFS"x | od -c i get 000 x \t \n x 005 (The 'x' are for better recognizing the gaps of blank characters.) Contrary to my expectation, the shell loop "for" does n

[Bug 1832922] Re: cannot use growisofs to write iso image

2019-06-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, this looks as if the '=' in /dev/sr0=ubuntu-16.04.6-desktop-amd64.iso is interpreted by the shell parser as whitespace. I get the message about genisoimage only if i do growisofs -speed=1 -dvd-compat -Z /dev/sr0 ubuntu-16.04.6-desktop-i386.iso Then it says About to execute 'genisoimage