Hollerith Parameters.
Jan. 9th, 2009 03:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupIt seems that MPlayer on Linux can accept hollerith parameter strings for when things get complex. So, you can run
where the %n%... part says to take the next n characters as a single parameter. Alas, this isn't built into the shell, so one still has to escape spaces and such.
mplayer -ao pcm:file=%10%C:test.wav test.aviwhere the %n%... part says to take the next n characters as a single parameter. Alas, this isn't built into the shell, so one still has to escape spaces and such.
