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JameEnder

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Registered: 2021-06-16

Posts: 1

Openbox rc.xml execute escape character

I've been trying to execute this command in one of my rc.xml bindings

<command>
scrot 'Screenshot_%Y-%m-%d-%I-%M-%S_$wx$h.png' -s -e 'mv $f $$(xdg-user-dir PICTURES) ; xclip -sel c < $$(xdg-user-dir PICTURES)/$f'
</command>

And it keeps giving me a syntax error, because there is a < character that clashes with HTML, but escaping it with \ doesn't work either and I'm really confused

Last edited by JameEnder (2021-06-16 22:13:13)

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,645

Re: Openbox rc.xml execute escape character

http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Menus#Command
(see the last line under the "Command" heading)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_X … ies_in_XML

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