[GTALUG] odd evince command behaviour

[Dhaval Giani]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 11:32 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
<talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
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> | From: Dhaval Giani via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
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> | On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 10:58 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
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> | > 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.
>
> Good suggestion.  No, using ' instead of " doesn't change what happens.
> So this is evince trying to handle RE: as magical.
>
> Also:
>         evince 'RE\: something.pdf'
> fails because evince tries to open a file with \ in its name.

That is because within the single quotes, it will not use the \ as an
escape character. I'm unsure of the behaviour within double quotes.

Dhaval