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  1. CarlQLange revised this gist Dec 29, 2011. 1 changed file with 4 additions and 1 deletion.
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    Line 2 below breaks, because of the single-quote in the song title. Bash is sucky and doesn't allow backslash escaping for that, and doing the '"'"' solution (as documented here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1250079/bash-escaping-single-quotes-inside-of-single-quoted-strings) doesn't work because it's already in an applescript string. Best would be a general solution.
    Line 2 below breaks, because of the single-quote in the song title. Bash is sucky and doesn't allow
    backslash escaping for that, and doing the '"'"' solution (as documented here
    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1250079/bash-escaping-single-quotes-inside-of-single-quoted-strings)
    doesn't work because it's already in an applescript string. Best would be a general solution.

    osascript -e 'tell application "iTunes"
    play track "Rory's First Kiss (Ryeland Allison remix)"
  2. CarlQLange created this gist Dec 29, 2011.
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    Line 2 below breaks, because of the single-quote in the song title. Bash is sucky and doesn't allow backslash escaping for that, and doing the '"'"' solution (as documented here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1250079/bash-escaping-single-quotes-inside-of-single-quoted-strings) doesn't work because it's already in an applescript string. Best would be a general solution.

    osascript -e 'tell application "iTunes"
    play track "Rory's First Kiss (Ryeland Allison remix)"
    end tell"'