| Summary: | xdg-open breaks on spaces in paths when using generic open method | ||
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| Product: | Portland | Reporter: | John Carlyle-Clarke <jpcc> |
| Component: | xdg-utils | Assignee: | Portland Bugs <portland-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | low | CC: | greg.grossmeier, jw+debian |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux (All) | ||
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| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
Confirmed this behavior in Hardy (xdg-utils 1.0.2-2) with the following: greg@alexandria:~$echo $GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID Default greg@alexandria:~$unset GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID greg@alexandria:~$echo $GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID greg@alexandria:~$touch file\ with\ spaces.txt greg@alexandria:~$xdg-open file\ with\ spaces.txt local: 438: spaces.txt: bad variable name Warning: unknown mime-type for "file" -- using "application/*" Error: no such file "file" greg@alexandria:~$touch file%20with%20a\ space.txt greg@alexandria:~$ls | grep file file%20with%20a space.txt file with spaces.txt greg@alexandria:~$xdg-open file%20with%20a\ space.txt local: 438: space.txt: bad variable name Warning: unknown mime-type for "file%20with%20a" -- using "application/*" Error: no such file "file%20with%20a" After an "export GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=Default" the above xdg-open commands work as expected. Hi, I have tested this and it is fixed in 1.0.2 Thanks, James |
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xdg-utils 1.0.1-2 on Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 xdg-open tries to detect the desktop environment and falls back to a generic method using run-mailcap. There is a bug in this function open_generic() that means if the path contains a space, the method fails. e.g. johncc@liberator:~$ xdg-open Fire\ stockists.txt local: 438: stockists.txt: bad variable name Warning: unknown mime-type for "Fire" -- using "application/*" Error: no such file "Fire" To provoke this bug you need to not be running GNOME, KDE or XFCE. In GNOME you can fake this by doing:- unset GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID touch file\ with\ spaces.txt xdg-open file\ with\ spaces.txt The problem is just missing quotes. A simple patch fixes it for me. 373c373 < local file="$(echo "$1" | sed 's%^file://%%')" --- > local file=$(echo "$1" | sed 's%^file://%%')