Re: [Gimp-user] Question about scripting

[Kevin Cozens <kevin ve3syb ca>]

On 2022-07-28 23:00, Jean-Pierre HOARAU wrote:
>  I tried this and it doesn't work:
>
> gimp -i -b "(file-jpeg-load RUN-NONINTERACTIVE "/home/user/ev.jpg"
> "/home/user/ev.jpg")" -b "(gimp-quit 0)"

On 2022-07-30 11:14, Ofnuts via gimp-user-list wrote:
> A problem you have is the multiple layers looking at your double quotes:

Ofnuts is correct that the problem is with the nested double quotes. The 
inner ones that are before and after the file name need to be escaped.

gimp -i -b "(file-jpeg-load RUN-NONINTERACTIVE \"/home/user/ev.jpg\"
\"/home/user/ev.jpg\")" -b "(gimp-quit 0)"

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