Bug 32973

Summary:	xdg-open fails to handle file names beginning with - (missing -- option) [PATCH]
Product:	Portland	Reporter:	Rüdiger <ruediger>
Component:	xdg-utils	Assignee:	Portland Bugs <portland-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	ruediger
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	Patch

Description Rüdiger 2011-01-10 08:50:38 UTC

Created attachment 41851 [details] [review]
Patch

$ cat > -test.txt
test
^D
$ xdg-open -test.txt
xdg-open: unexpected option '-test.txt'
Try 'xdg-open --help' for more information.
$ xdg-open -- -test.txt
xdg-open: unexpected option '--'
Try 'xdg-open --help' for more information.

Most applications offer the -- flag to deactivate the handling of options and allow the application to handle file names beginning with -. I wrote a patch that adds support for -- to xdg-open. I added a test case and it worked for me with kde-open (should also work with exo-open and gnome. Haven't tried the generic/lxde stuff).

The patch does not support file names "--help" and so on because the code that handles those options is auto generated and not aware of --. I wasn't sure how to fix that and it's probably a very uncommon use case.

Comment 1 GitLab Migration User 2019-02-16 13:30:18 UTC

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