Re: [julia-users] Re: how to create a command with an unquoted backslash in it?

2015-05-18 Thread Yakir Gagnon
Right, yea, it was all a mistake I made and I thought the parenthesis were the culprits... Thanks anyway!!! Yakir Gagnon The Queensland Brain Institute (Building #79) The University of Queensland Brisbane QLD 4072 Australia cell +61 (0)424 393 332 work +61 (0)733 654 089 On Sun, May 17, 2015 at

[julia-users] Re: how to create a command with an unquoted backslash in it?

2015-05-16 Thread andrew cooke
just playing around, it seems to me like julia is escaping with slashes. i don't have imagmagick installed, but with echo it woks as expected: julia> run(`echo \(`) ( julia> run(`echo \\(`) \( julia> ^D andrew@netbook:~> echo ( bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline' andrew@netbook:

Re: [julia-users] Re: how to create a command with an unquoted backslash in it?

2015-05-16 Thread Yakir Gagnon
Problem solved. I had a mistake in the imagemagick command and thought it was the parenthesis. It wasn't. Sorry about the rant. No need for any special treatment for the parenthesis. It just works. On 17/05/2015 8:00 AM, "Yakir Gagnon" <12.ya...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hmm. That doesn't work: > I just

Re: [julia-users] Re: how to create a command with an unquoted backslash in it?

2015-05-16 Thread Yakir Gagnon
Hmm. That doesn't work: I just get '\\)' which results in an error if I try to run it. On 16/05/2015 10:34 PM, "Steven G. Johnson" wrote: > Just put them in quotes? e.g. `convert image.png "\\(" . "\\)"` >

[julia-users] Re: how to create a command with an unquoted backslash in it?

2015-05-16 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Just put them in quotes? e.g. `convert image.png "\\(" . "\\)"`