[openbox] problems with tilde characters in commands

[Anthony Thyssen]

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 20:08:06 -0700 (PDT)
Knute <knuteh at yahoo.com> wrote:

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| 
| --- On Mon, 4/6/09, Dana Jansens <danakj at orodu.net> wrote:
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| > From: Dana Jansens <danakj at orodu.net>
| > Subject: Re: [openbox] problems with tilde characters in commands
| > To: "openbox mailing list" <openbox at icculus.org>
| > Date: Monday, April 6, 2009, 9:58 PM
| > 2009/4/6 Anthony Thyssen <A.Thyssen at griffith.edu.au>:
| 
| <cut>
| > > As such the only working solution thus far is the very
| > horrible
| > > work around of.
| > >
| > >    bash -c "xte 'usleep 500000'
| > \\\
| > >        'str
| > http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/'`printf
| > '\176'`'anthony/'
| > >
| > > The tilde is thus provided by the command line
| > "printf" AFTER
| > > openbox has executed it.
| > >
| > > And yes  three backslashes are now needed due to
| > quoting requirements,
| > > even though only one is needed from the command line.
| >  Could this be
| > > another "openbox" parsing problem?
| > >
| > > The question then comes down to: How fast can we get
| > 'tilde expansion'
| > > fixed in the "openbox" source?
| > 
| > Such hostility, it's amazing.
| > 
| > > That is only do the expansion if not in quotes, and
| > precessed by the
| > > start of the line, or white space.
| > 
| > Allowing a quoted \~ which gets passed literally to the
| > command,
| > instead of being expanded, should be nice.
| 
| LOL
| 
| Still complaining about finding a solution that isn't as nice as he likes that is going to be put into a macro so that, to use it, all he has to do is hit a couple of buttons.
| 
No comment.


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