On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 11:32 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
| From: Dhaval Giani via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
| On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 10:58 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
| > 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