[BUG][UNIX] Failed to parse command line option with space in filename

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[BUG][UNIX] Failed to parse command line option with space in filename #448

Open jopadan opened 2 years ago

jopadan commented 2 years ago

Steps to reproduce:

get tetrahedron_twist
run povray wobbles\ -\ tetra\ twist.pov

wfpokorny commented 1 year ago

As a user, I agree it's a bug.

While there are forks where the unix quoting you show will work, in the current official v3.7, v3.8 and v4.0 branches, one must use non-standard quoting as in:

povray "\"thing1 -thing2.pov\""

or something like

povray "Input_File_Name=\"thing1 -thing2.pov\""

where sort of an ini file form is used on the command line. However, in an ini file one would use just:

Input_File_Name="thing1 -thing2.pov"