Running macros with text args and -b

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Am I correct that one no longer needs to escape the " for args executed via -b?

The user manual states the syntax as

root -b -q ‘MyMacro.C(“text1”)’

I find that the \ is rejected when the macro runs.

Also, it might be nice if root would complain if it could not find the macro, rather than do nothing and quit happily.

Thanks,

Richard

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Hi Richard,
with bash, you can either call

root -b -q 'MyMacro.C("text1")' or root -b -q MyMacro.C\(\"text1\"\)(i.e. either escape or enclose in do-not-expand single quotation marks).

I’ll work on the warning message when called with a missing macro.
Axel.