[Gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 143473] - newline in property value in gst-launch string breaks parsing

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http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143473
GStreamer | gstreamer (core) | Ver: 0.8.1





------- Additional Comments From jyasskin at mail.utexas.edu  2004-06-01 21:09 -------
I'm really trying to write the element in bug #141686. I want to include a
newline in the format string, which is specified as a property. But gst-launch
doesn't seem to be able to parse property values containing newlines, hence this
bug. I figured it'd be easier to give you a test case involving filesrc since
you actually have that element installed.

I see the -e problem: zsh (what I'm running) doesn't need -e to process escapes,
os x never processes them, and bash and gnu need -e. printf doesn't have these
problems, so my problematic gst-launch command should be:
gst-launch filesrc location="`printf "blah\nblah"`"

I'd like you to interpret this bug as "please show me a way to, from a shell
prompt, include a newline character in a element's property value. If, as I
suspect, there's no way to do it, please fix that." 

I think the symptom of this bug is these two lines in the error message:
WARNING: erroneous pipeline: no element "blah"
         Trying to run anyway.
because I'm never asking for a "blah" element.
Do none of you get this part of the error message? I am running on os x, so it's
possible that's causing the problem, but it would be a very strange os dependency.

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