[vdr] Re: Command-line problems when starting VDR-plugins

[Sergei Haller <Sergei.Haller@math.uni-giessen.de>]

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Rene Bartsch (RB) wrote:

RB> But when I use options like -P"hello --aaa=ABC" I get error-messages similar
RB> to "unknown option" or "unknown command". It seems the options are not
RB> assigned to the plugins but to VDR itself.

if you use things like

VDRPRG="vdr -P"hello --aaa=ABC" $*"

in a script, the string ends at the " character just after the -P. You
have to escape the " character. It should be something like this:

VDRPRG="vdr -P\"hello --aaa=ABC\" $*"

c ya
        Sergei
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