FFProbe failing on path with " in it

[thefirstofthe300 292]

So I recently renamed all of my music and the folders (had to do with getting semicolons to separate artists in the tags for the server) and ended up with a directory name 

/multimedia/Music/"Weird Al" Yankovic

which causes failures when FFmpeg attempts to FFprobe it.  I know this isn't exactly good practice for file naming but Linux can handle it just fine so this kind of name should be tolerated IMO.

 

Here is the log.

log.txt

[Luke 42077]

can you figure out how to escape it on the command line? thanks.

[thefirstofthe300 292]

As in a script to do so?  Or just what to use?

 

Normally, simply prefixing a special character with a backslash (\) will do the job.  The other way to approach it is to put single quotes around the string that contains the double quotes (the single quotes, at least in bash, escape spaces, double quotes, and other special characters; the same will be true of double quotes: they will escape single quotes, spaces, and special characters).

Edited December 22, 2014 by DaBungalow

[Luke 42077]

as in what to use. for example, create a shell script that launches ffmpeg with that file 

[thefirstofthe300 292]

Bash script is attached.

 

Just drop the .txt and run. Be sure you have an mp3 file named

/multimedia/Music/"Weird Al" Yankovic/Mandatory Fun/01 - Handy.mp3

launch-ffmpeg.sh.txt

[Luke 42077]

well no, something that has more params. because with ffmpeg we always use -i before the input, and we always specify the protocol, in this case file. and that has to be wrapped with quotes itself

ffmpeg -i file:"{path}"

[techywarrior 689]

Typically in Linux you can just escape the it with \

 

you can even escape spaces with \ so you don't have to quote the path like in Windows:

ffmpeg - file:/path\ to\ file/filename.extension

[thefirstofthe300 292]

Did not know this.

 

How 'bout this?  I checked and it works.

launch-ffmpeg.sh.txt

[Luke 42077]

thanks. that might be ok.