On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 11:32 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > > | From: Dhaval Giani via talk <[email protected]> > > | On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 10:58 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk > <[email protected]> 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 --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
