[PD] Pass arg to Pd via terminal

[Christof Ressi]

> yes, sure.
Your last e-mail indicated otherwise. You showed how you can't open 
"mypatch.pd" as "mypatch", but this was not what Mario was asking.
> but what's the point of this discussion?
I just answered a question and you said my answer was wrong.

> how is being able to open a file with an arbitrary name (including
> arbitrary extensions) related to passing args to Pd?
I've never claimed it was.

> it seems that all ideas just fail the
> "foolproof test".
True.

On the other hand, let's look at this:

pd "mypatch.pd 1 2 3"

What if we simply treat ".pd " as the delimiter? How many people 
realistically have this character sequence in a directory name? I know 
it's not 100% foolproof, but maybe it's good enough... Just sayin'

Christof

On 09.06.2020 17:50, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
> On 2020-06-09 17:34, Christof Ressi wrote:
>> Just to be clear: we're talking about opening a patch file that does not
>> have the .pd extension, e.g. "mypatch.txt" or simply "mypatch". This
>> certainly works (at least here on Windows.)
> yes, sure. that's what i wrote in my other mail.
>
>
> but what's the point of this discussion?
> how is being able to open a file with an arbitrary name (including
> arbitrary extensions) related to passing args to Pd?
>
> i think the much more relevant question in the context of the collapsed
> filename+args opening ("pd -open 'foo.pd: 12'") is, whether we can load
> patches with spaces in them.
> and the answer is of course: yes we can.
>
> so what do i get in this case?:
> ```
> $ ls -1
> 'foo 42'
> foo.pd
> 'foo.pd: 12'
> $ pd -open "foo.pd: 12"
> ```
>
> while it may seem to be super-elegant to cram as much info into the
> shortest possible cmdline, it seems that all ideas just fail the
> "foolproof test".
> the only character that is forbidden on all systems is "/".
> we probably don't want to use *that* tough.
>
> so maybe we should concentrate on other ideas to pass arguments per patch.
>
> gfmards
> IOhannes
>
>
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