postprocessing batch to escape special characters

[donbrew]

Any ideas on a windows 10 batch file to escape special characters in show titles?

For instance a show title might have "&" in it.  Unless this is escaped comcut truncates the title and then returns a fatal error.

For some crazy reasons I am recording TV on windows then moving them to a Ubuntu machine to be processed with Comcut.  Comcut is a bash script that combines comskip and ffmpeg to remove ads.

If I had any idea what I was doing I could probably insert some code using sed into Comskip

[mvallevand]

Sounds more like the comcut bash script is what you should change. Consider v5 on linux too to save the move.

Martin

[donbrew]

I have V5 on linux, the problem is my my card has become unreliable and I would still have to escape the characters.
I was just hoping somebody has run into the problem and solved it. I haven't given up lerarning how to do it myself.

[JavaWiz]

I vaguely remember running into this problem ages ago...  If you are an windows, you might take a look @ a tool called fart (find and replace text).

Also, if you post your batch file (and supply a sample filename that it breaks on), there are probably folks in this forum who could help you work thru the code...