[Gambas-user] Exec statement not working though equivalent Terminal command works

[Fabien Bodard]

Exec ["mplex", "-f 8", "-o",  sCombinedPath ,
sVideoPath,  sAudioPath]
Le 9 juil. 2014 09:33, "John Rose" <john.aaron.rose at ...626...> a écrit :

> I have this code:
>      Print "mplex", "-f 8", "-o " & "'" & sCombinedPath & "'", "'" &
> sVideoPath & "'", "'" & sAudioPath & "'"
>      Exec ["mplex", "-f 8", "-o " & "'" & sCombinedPath & "'", "'" &
> sVideoPath & "'", "'" & sAudioPath & "'"] To sOutput
> I'm using the single quotes since they are required when entering the
> equivalent commands in a Terminal e.g. mplex   -f 8    -o
> '/home/john/Videos/q.mpg'    '/home/john/Videos/The Story of Science_
> Power, Proof____20140621_2000.m2v' '/home/john/Videos/The Story of
> Science_ Power, Proof____20140621_2000.mp2'.
>
> The Print statement shows (at runtime):
> mplex   -f 8    -o '/home/john/Videos/q.mpg' '/home/john/Videos/The
> Story of Science_ Power, Proof____20140621_2000.m2v'
> '/home/john/Videos/The Story of Science_ Power, Proof____20140621_2000.mp2'
> i.e. the exact equivalent of the working command when entered in a
> Terminal.
>
> However, the Exec statement does nothing at runtime, though the
> equivalent Terminal command works. There is no feedback on why by
> Gambas. I've also tried the statements without the single quote usage &
> it also did nothing. I'm fairly sure that this used to work on the
> previous version of Gambas: I'm using kendek's Gambas3 ppa
> (https://code.launchpad.net/~nemh/+archive/ubuntu/gambas3) which
> installed Gambas 3.5.3. The code without the single quote usage is:
>      Print "mplex", "-f 8", "-o " & sCombinedPath, sVideoPath, sAudioPath
>      Exec ["mplex", "-f 8", "-o " sCombinedPath, sVideoPath, sAudioPath]
> To sOutput
>
> The above sOutput variable has the value "". What I am doing wrong or is
> it an issue in Gambas 3.5.3?
>
> --
> Regards,
> John
>
>
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