[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [RFC][PATCH] New option -identify

[Eric Lammerts]

On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Tobias Diedrich wrote:
> Do we have a shell-escape function ?
> Would be nice to add quotes around the name ("name") and escape shell
> meta characters (`\!$"), but I think this could be done in a wrapper
> script too.

Shell escapes are inconvenient when you want to parse the output with
something else (e.g., perl or a C program).

> > Anyway, nice patch.

Yes, very nice!

Eric