search

salman-abedin / devour

X11 window swallower
GNU General Public License v2.0
415 stars 30 forks source link

devour error with filenames that include parentheses #16

Closed rusty-electron closed 3 years ago

rusty-electron commented 3 years ago

Hi, @salman-abedin sorry to bother you again but devour has the same issue I previously had, this time it is with filenames that have parentheses in them.

image

mpvd is an alias for devour mpv

Originally posted by @rusty-electron in https://github.com/salman-abedin/devour/issues/13#issuecomment-691728123

salman-abedin commented 3 years ago

Nah it's fine. Unfortunately, I am a little caught up these days but I'll take care of it soon.

rusty-electron commented 3 years ago

no prob, take your time :+1:

antaxiom commented 3 years ago

I just wanna add this also happens with ' as well for me

KenJean commented 3 years ago

As a temporary workaround I find that symlink-ing the target file to a generic name works. i.e.

ln -nsf <target file with problematic name> /tmp/dummy devour <application> /tmp/dummy

It's gets tricky if you are invoking devour from within another shell script, but it can be handled with some command-line-fu.

salman-abedin commented 3 years ago

Upgrade to version 12 guys.