[Lazarus] TProcess not mirroring terminal

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Tue Jun 2 14:31:50 CEST 2015



On Tue, 2 Jun 2015, JuuS wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm using Lazarus 1.4 with Kubuntu 14.04
>
> I've written a small GUI frontend for the rsync command. I assemble
> rsync command line switches and source and destination thru the TProcess
> paramlist and everything has been exactly mirrored by my program and
> when the exact same command is run through a terminal, it has worked
> perfectly for everything I want to do with rsync...
>
> ...until today.
>
> For the first time my output and the output from the same command line
> run in terminal work differently.
>
> Run it through terminal and the command is accepted, however running it
> through TProcess and rsync complains! The two outputs are listed below,
> the parameters passed are exactly the same.
>
>
> Anyone have an idea why this is so???
>

As a wild guess: You cannot specify * or ** (or any wildcard), 
because that must be escaped using the shell.

Michael.




More information about the Lazarus mailing list