Escaping for send-keys

[Radiobiscuit]

Hello everyone,

I've been using tmux to control Liquidsoap as a background process for streaming. For those who are not familiar, Liquidsoap is a scripting system for building audio streams and output control.

I wanted to work out how to control some of the tmux functionality from scripts, and one of these will shut down a Liquidsoap instance from the command line. At this stage, it's the only tmux session running, so using send-keys should do the trick. The only trouble is that it doesn't seem to send the C-m key at the end of the characters that I'm using. This is probably because the characters contain () and ;;

So my question is, how should I write a send-keys argument to make this work:

tmux send-keys shutdown();;C-m

Basically it's the shutdown() command for Liquidsoap followed by the statement delimiter ;; and then the ENTER key. I'm pretty sure I need to escape something, but which bits and how? Any help would be most appreciated as I've spent hours and hours reading up about this, but haven't found a solution yet.

Thanks,

Andy

[nicm]

Use quotes?

[Radiobiscuit]

Thanks, yes I did use quotes. The second semicolon still needed escaping though. I think I've fixed it now.