| 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. So: evince itself is interpreting the : but isn't providing the obvious way of quoting the character Perhaps evince is using some GNOME library to deal with filenames.