[GTALUG] odd evince command behaviour

Dhaval Giani dhaval.giani at gmail.com
Thu Jan 7 14:06:23 EST 2021


On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 10:58 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
<talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>
> I have a PDF filename named "RE: something.pdf"
>
> This fails:
>         evince "RE: someting.pdf"

Stupid question, does replacing " with ' help? IIRC ' does no
substitution at all. And it just feels like an escape issue. Does it
think RE is a protocol due to the ":" there. Maybe you can also try to
escape that ":" and see if it opens.

Dhaval


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