Re: Escaping special characters

  • From: <tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: emelfm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:40:06 +1100

On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:34:04 +0100
vx <rastavibes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

AFAIK '!' is valid in a *NIX file path/name, and as such, there should be no 
need to escape it (any character is legal, but some, like '?', are unwise).

Who knows why ark doesn't like it ?

Seems to me that your best approach would be to rename your "!Downloads" 
directory.

Regards
Tom


> I tried both your suggestions. Before I was using "ark %p", i just
> accidentally ommited it from my original mail. when i use ">", the same
> thing happens. I tried this from my terminal outside of emelFM2. Ark opens
> the file nicely when i escape the "!" as "\!", and don't use qoutations
> around the path.
> 
> Vedran
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> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Liviu Andronic 
> <landronimirc@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> 
> > Hello
> >
> > On 12/12/09, vx <rastavibes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > For example, this is how emelFM2 issues a command when i try open
> > with->"ark
> > > %"
> > > ark "/home/xxx/!Downloads/recaptcha-php-1.10.zip"
> > >
> > > ark doesn't like it very much. This seems to work fine:
> > > ark /home/vexxor/\!Downloads/recaptcha-php-1.10.zip
> > >
> > It is not clear from your example. Did you try ">ark %p" or ">ark %f"?
> > Pre-pending ">" will send the command to the terminal.
> >
> > Liviu
> >
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