Hi list,

This is my first posting to the list, I've run into a small problem while writing a script to simplify some task. My script does the following: opens up a .jpg file, crops it, adds text to it, flattens the layers, and saves everything back. All this runs fine in Gimp (ie. from the Xtra menu and script-fu)

Now when I call this from a bash script it is also fine, my problem is that instead of passing fixed parameters to my script-fu script I want to pass bash variables, but I can't get this to work, I looked on the web and tried what people suggest but can't get it to work, please help.

Here is some info on everything: Red Hat 9.0
Gimp-1.2.3-16 (from Red Hat's rpm)

Here is my bash script:

***************** #!/bin/sh
file=temp.jpg
fullpath=/home/mathieu/miscellaneous/backgrounds/weather_maps/temp.jpg current_time="13:25"
gimp -d -i --verbose -b '(script-fu-add-text-weather-map '$fullpath' '$file' '$current_time')'
*****************

Has you can see my gimp script as 3 parameters, which I want to pass as variables (fullpath, file, current_time).

TIA for the help

Mathieu

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On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 06:58, Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

Mathieu Masse writes:

Now when I call this from a bash script it is also fine, my problem is that instead of passing fixed parameters to my script-fu script I want to pass bash variables, but I can't get this to work, I looked on the web and tried what people suggest but can't get it to work, please help.

I'd say your quoting is wrong. You can hardly expect nested single ticks to work.

gimp -d -i --verbose -b '(script-fu-add-text-weather-map '$fullpath' '$file' '$current_time')'

Try this instead:

gimp -d -i --verbose -b '(script-fu-add-text-weather-map "$fullpath" "$file" "$current_time")'

That also does not work using the double quotes gimp thinks these are strings and does not evaluate the values of the variables...

Sven

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