--hls-liveradio-opts

dinkypumpkin dinkypumpkin at gmail.com
Mon Dec 15 10:28:14 PST 2014


On 15/12/2014 17:51, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote:
> I noticed this a while ago and thought it was odd seeing eg '-x' turning
> into '"-x"'.  It seems to me that perl only needs to enclose any parameter
> in double quotes if it has embedded spaces in it.

It's just printed that way so you would be able copy and paste to a 
command prompt without worrying about quoting and I don't have to look 
for embedded whitespace in output that is universally ignored.  The 
command doesn't have the extra quotes when get_iplayer sends it for 
execution.





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