[PATCH] Output AAC as M4A for iTunes with metadata tags (Shevek)

Roger Burton West roger at firedrake.org
Thu Mar 31 16:03:40 EDT 2011


On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 08:56:59PM +0100, dinkypumpkin wrote:

>Yes.  Perl pros here should correct me, but I think now that you effectively passing a list of length = 1 to system() or open3 (under the hood of main::run_cmd), you need to handle all internal quoting yourself.

Yes. The array form is much more secure because you don't need to worry
about weird characters in file names, but because the single-argument
form _does_ interpret those weird characters it can handle pipes and
redirection.

R



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