On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 1:58 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@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"?