[GTALUG] odd evince command behaviour

[Aruna Hewapathirane]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 1:58 PM 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"
> with the error messages on stdout:
>         ** (evince:397922): WARNING **: 11:14:02.077: The specified
> location is not supported
>         ** (evince:397922): WARNING **: 11:14:02.080: set_filenames: The
> specified location is not supported
>
> The message in the evince window is more interesting:
>         Unable to open document
> “file:///tmp/evince-397922/document.SR35V0-
>         something”.
>
>         The specified location is not supported.
>
> Clearly evince is trying to treat the prefix "RE:" as something magic.
> Just what, I don't know.  But it sure isn't in the evince man page.
>
> This command works fine:
>         evince ./"RE: someting.pdf"
>
>
Why not simply rename the file to something.pdf ?

I just tested and the command(s) below works:
mv 'RE: something.pdf' something.pdf && evince something.pdf && mv
something.pdf 'RE: something.pdf'

unless of course there is a real need to have it work using evince "RE:
someting.pdf"?
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