agbagb;445669 Wrote: > ... > An issue I had at the outset (after I'd eventually got everything > necessary in the right directories) was that issue of spaces in the > command. So I was trying to run: > > flac2mp3.pl Q:\MUSIC flac Q:\MUSIC mp3 > > and kept getting errors (saying "Could not find Q:\Music". My > workround was to actually rename to chief folders to: > > flac2mp3.pl Q:\MUSICflac Q:\MUSICmp3 > > ie. getting rid of the spaces. But could I have just written this: > > flac2mp3.pl "Q:\MUSIC flac" "Q:\MUSIC mp3" > > which would have been (and will for the future) have been much more > convenient?
Yes, quotes are the correct mechanism to protect the dos shell from breaking apart the words due to spaces. They also protect other meta-characters. -- MrC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56257 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
