XINIT and ;

[sleve_mcdichael]

Seeing something weird in my log file:

Executing (via xinit): pushd /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/sorr
./SorR.dat: doesn't exist or isn't version 7 DCB compatible
/dev/shm/retropie_xinitrc: line 5: popd\n: command not found
~/RetroPie/roms/ports/sorr ~
~

/dev/shm/retropie_xinitrc is removed before I can look at it, so I hacked the emulators.cfg command to copy it while it exists to ~ where I can view it later:

bgdi-333 = "XINIT:pushd /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/sorr; cp /dev/shm/retropie_xinitrc ~; /opt/retropie/ports/sorr/bgdi-333 %ROM%; popd"
default = "bgdi-333"

That worked, here's what I got:

pi@retropie:~ $ cat retropie_xinitrc 
#!/bin/bash
XRANDR_OUTPUT="$(xrandr --verbose | grep " connected" | awk '{ print $1 }')"
xrandr --output $XRANDR_OUTPUT --mode 1280x720 --refresh 60
echo "Set mode 1280x720@60Hz on $XRANDR_OUTPUT"
echo -e "\nExecuting (via xinit): "pushd /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/sorr; cp /dev/shm/retropie_xinitrc ~; /opt/retropie/ports/sorr/bgdi-333 "./SorR.dat"; popd"\n"
pushd /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/sorr; cp /dev/shm/retropie_xinitrc ~; /opt/retropie/ports/sorr/bgdi-333 "./SorR.dat"; popd

That second echo is where the problem is:

echo -e "\nExecuting (via xinit): "pushd /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/sorr; cp /dev/shm/retropie_xinitrc ~; /opt/retropie/ports/sorr/bgdi-333 "./SorR.dat"; popd"\n"

with those ; in there, it's getting parsed as:

$ echo -e "\nExecuting (via xinit): "pushd /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/sorr
 
Executing (via xinit): pushd /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/sorr
$ cp /dev/shm/retropie_xinitrc ~
cp: cannot stat '/dev/shm/retropie_xinitrc': No such file or directory
# this was my "hack" -- cannot stat because file doesn't exist outside of runcommand environment.
$ /opt/retropie/ports/sorr/bgdi-333 "./SorR.dat"
./SorR.dat: doesn't exist or isn't version 7 DCB compatible
# "./SorR.dat" doesn't exist because we haven't actually moved to where it is yet.
$ popd"\n"
-bash: popd\n: command not found

...then after that, it actually does the pushd (instead of simply echoing that it is going to) and then repeats the cp (which works, if we are in runcommand; not when I trigger manually) and the /opt/retropie/ports/sorr/bgdi-333 (which works, because we are in the right place now where ./SorR can be found) and the popd (which works, because it doesn't have a "\n" after it.)

In this case, it doesn't seem do anything drastic, but I could imagine a scenario where running partial lists of commands from the wrong directory might do more serious damage than logging some complaints about your syntax.

Is there anything to be done about this, besides "you can't use XINIT: like that"?

[YFZdude]

@sleve_mcdichael
If my CLI knowledge is on par, the echo command is stopping at the first ; like it should because that symbol signals the end of one command and the beginning of another, or taking the place of a line break.

If you want the whole thing echoed I think you need to use a set of ( ) around everything you want the echo to apply to.

[sleve_mcdichael]

@YFZdude I tried putting parentheses both around everything, and inside the outermost quotes. Results were different each time but neither was correct.

pi@retropie:~ $ echo -e ("\nExecuting (via xinit): "pushd /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/sorr; cp /dev/shm/retropie_xinitrc ~; /opt/retropie/ports/sorr/bgdi-333 "./SorR.dat"; popd"\n")
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
pi@retropie:~ $ echo -e "(\nExecuting (via xinit): "pushd /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/sorr; cp /dev/shm/retropie_xinitrc ~; /opt/retropie/ports/sorr/bgdi-333 "./SorR.dat"; popd"\n)"
(
Executing (via xinit): pushd /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/sorr
cp: cannot stat '/dev/shm/retropie_xinitrc': No such file or directory
./SorR.dat: doesn't exist or isn't version 7 DCB compatible
-bash: popd\n): command not found
pi@retropie:~ $
 

[BuZz]

@sleve_mcdichael You will need to use a launch script if you need to do that when using XINIT:

[YFZdude]

@sleve_mcdichael
After thinking about it and playing with a test command I remembered the trick.

You need to escape the ; characters with a \ before each one so it will treat them as text instead of the command separator function.

 echo -e this should\; print as \; one line

[sleve_mcdichael]

@YFZdude would that I were merely crafting an echo command whole-cloth, that would be great. Unfortunately, it is generated automatically by whatever is in emulators.cfg; I can't just escape the semicolons in one place but not the other, (I mean, I'm sure someone probably can, but I wouldn't know where to start.)

@BuZz so something like lr-nxengine does then, yeah? First, I'd do an addPort with just XINIT:<command>, and then overwrite that automatically-generated launch script with a custom one:

    [...]
    addPort "bgdi-333" "sorr" "Streets of Rage Remake" "XINIT:$md_inst/bgdi-333 %ROM%" "./SorR.dat"
    local file="$romdir/ports/Streets of Rage Remake.sh"
    cat > "$file" << _EOF_
#!/bin/bash
pushd "$romdir/ports/sorr"
"$rootdir/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "sorr" "./SorR.dat"
popd
_EOF_
    chown $user:$user "$file"
    chmod +x "$file"
    [...]

Like that?

[mitu]

@sleve_mcdichael Don't mix runcommand into your launch script.

[sleve_mcdichael]

@mitu ...er, why? Literally every launch script in my ports folder uses runcommand:

pi@retropie:~/RetroPie/roms/ports $ grep *.sh -e runcommand.sh
am2r.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "droidports" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/droidports/am2r_155.apk"
cavestory.sh:    "/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ cavestory "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/CaveStory/Doukutsu.exe"
doom2-htp.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "doom" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/htp/DOOM2.WAD"
doom2-nerve.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "doom" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/nerve/DOOM2.WAD"
doom2-pg.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "doom" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/pg/DOOM2.WAD"
doom2.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "doom" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/doom2/DOOM2.WAD"
doom-jptr.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "doom" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/jptr/DOOM.WAD"
doom-sigil.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "doom" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/sigil/DOOM.WAD"
doom-ultimate.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "doom" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/ultimate/DOOM.WAD"
duke3d.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "duke3d" "-j /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/duke3d/"
duke-dc.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "duke3d" "-j /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/duke3d -g dc/dukedc.grp"
duke-nw.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "duke3d" "-j /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/duke3d -g nw/nwinter.grp -x nw/nwinter.con"
duke-vacation.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "duke3d" "-j /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/duke3d -g vacation/vacation.grp -x vacation/game.con -j /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/duke3d/vacation"
finaldoom1.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "doom" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/finaldoom1/TNT.WAD"
finaldoom2.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "doom" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/finaldoom2/PLUTONIA.WAD"
freedoom1.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "doom" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom//freedoom1/FREEDOOM1.WAD"
freedoom2.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "doom" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/freedoom2/FREEDOOM2.WAD"
hcl.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "hcl" ""
hurrican.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "hurrican" ""
maldita.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "droidports" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/droidports/Maldita_Castilla_ouya.apk"
marathon1.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "alephone" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/alephone/Marathon/"
marathon2.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "alephone" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/alephone/Marathon 2/"
marathon3.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "alephone" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/alephone/Marathon Infinity/"
quake-dopa.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "quake" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/quake/dopa/pak0.pak"
quake-hipnotic.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "quake" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/quake/hipnotic/pak0.pak"
quake-rogue.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "quake" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/quake/rogue/pak0.pak"
quake.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "quake" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/quake/id1/pak0.pak"sorr.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "sorr" "./SorR.dat"
supertux.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "supertux" ""
sw-dragon.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "sw" "-gdragon.zip"
sw.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "sw" ""
sw-wt.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "sw" "-gwt.grp"
wolf3d.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "wolf3d" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/wolf3d/vswap.wl6"wolf-sd1.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "wolf3d" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/wolf3d/vswap.sd1"
wolf-sd2.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "wolf3d" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/wolf3d/vswap.sd2"
wolf-sd3.sh:"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "wolf3d" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/wolf3d/vswap.sd3"

I based it on what lr-nxengine.sh does for Cave Story:

addPort "$md_id" "cavestory" "Cave Story" "$md_inst/nxengine_libretro.so"
    local file="$romdir/ports/Cave Story.sh"
    # custom launch script - if the data files are not found, warn the user
    cat >"$file" << _EOF_
#!/bin/bash
if [[ ! -f "$romdir/ports/CaveStory/Doukutsu.exe" ]]; then
    dialog --no-cancel --pause "$md_help" 22 76 15
else
    "$rootdir/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ cavestory "$romdir/ports/CaveStory/Doukutsu.exe"
fi
_EOF_
    chown $user:$user "$file"
    chmod +x "$file"

Is this different because of XINIT:, or what do you mean?

Edit: oh, is that going to "start over" in ~, essentially "undoing" the pushd?

[mitu]

@sleve_mcdichael said in XINIT and ;:

Is this different because of XINIT:, or what do you mean?

Your script is called from runcommand, which takes care of XINIT handling, calling runcommand again from your script doesn't makes sense. The script should just start the game.

[sleve_mcdichael]

@mitu ah, so I'm not overwriting the "launch script" that's inroms like lr-nxengine does, but adding, say, a "buffer" launch script in $md_inst like wolf4sdl or eduke32 do?

Something like this then, maybe:

    [...]
    addPort "bgdi-333" "sorr" "Streets of Rage Remake" "XINIT:$md_inst/$md_id.sh %ROM%" "./SorR.dat"
    local file="$md_inst/$md_id.sh"
    cat > "$file" << _EOF_
#!/bin/bash
pushd "$romdir/ports/sorr"
"$md_inst/bgdi-333" \$*
popd
_EOF_
    chown $user:$user "$file"
    chmod +x "$file"
    [[ -f "$romdir/ports/$md_id/SorMaker.dat" || "$md_mode" == "remove" ]] && addPort "bgdi-333" "sorr" "SorMaker" "XINIT:$md_inst/$md_id.sh %ROM%" "./SorMaker.dat"
    [...]

Edit: changed the commands a little. Does this work to pass %ROM% as additional arguments? And does that last line work like I think it does?

[mitu]

That looks better.

Edit: changed the commands a little. Does this work to pass %ROM% as additional arguments?

Yes, you'd get it in $1 (1st arg), but I'm not sure if it help or is useful in this case. You can just pass SorR.dat as argument to the starting game script.

[sleve_mcdichael]

@mitu sorry I made another edit. I want to pass that as the %ROM% parameter so we can make another menu entry for the level editor.