Re: Chopping wav samples

On 2020-03-20 09:37, K. H. Hom via Sox-users wrote:
> Hi,
> when i navigate to the folder with the source file and manually
> execute the following command it works:
> sox threebursts.wav temp_outfile.wav silence 1 0.1 1 : newfile : 
> restart
> 
> but if I craete a batch file which takes teh file as argument, it doent 
> work:
> sox "%~1" temp_outfile.wav silence 1 0.1 1% 1 0.1 1% : newfile : 
> restart
> 
> it results into :
>> sox "C:\Users\hom\Downloads\Desktop\New folder (3)\threebursts.wav" 
>> temp_outfile.wav silence 1 0.1 1 : newfile : restart
> 
> Any idea why that do not work please?


A % sign has special meaning in bat files.  Look - you used "%~1" - and 
expected that
to be replaced by a parameter.  Well, further along the command the 
other % chars
caused a problem.

You need to use %% where you want a single one.  See: "Quoting and 
escaping" at:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Windows_Batch_Scripting#How_a_command_line_is_interpreted



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