On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 1:58 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <[email protected]> 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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