Re: Spaces in attached file names

[Bill Moseley <moseley@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 12:31:13AM +0100, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> Well, you could also set the mailcap_sanitize option in mutt.  That
> should avoid all your problems, I think.

No, setting mailcap_sanitize="no" didn't change anything.

Oh, wait!  It's a shell problem.

    $ file /usr/bin/xpdf
    /usr/bin/xpdf: Bourne-Again shell script text executable

Well, then.  Seems like that script is the one that isn't doing the
right thing.

  exec -a xpdf xpdf.bin "$@"

Now I'm not clear what's happening here.

If I setup something to show the arguments passed:

    (/etc/mailcap)
    application/pdf; /home/moseley/log.pl '%s'

and a simple perl script:

    $ cat log.pl
    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
    use strict;

    open FH, '>>/home/moseley/logger.out' or die $!;
    print FH time, "[$$]:", join '::', @ARGV;
    print FH "\n";

Then I expected to see mutt send multiple paramaters:

    ./log.pl hello there
        1110326799[305]:hello::there  # what I expect

    run-mailcap 'test doc.pdf'
        1110326851[325]:test doc.pdf  # what I expect


    And then regardless of "mailcap_sanitize" and regardless of %s
    with or without quotes, running from mutt works just fine:
        1110326951[398]:test doc.pdf
        1110327011[421]:test doc.pdf


But, if I change /usr/bin/xpdf to also log the parameters
(and reset mailcap to application/pdf; /usr/bin/xpdf '%s'):

    $ cat /usr/bin/xpdf
    LANG=C
    LC_ALL=C
    export LANG LC_ALL

    /home/moseley/log.pl  "$@"
    exec -a xpdf xpdf.bin "$@"

Then I see that the parameter is indeed split.

    1110327660[648]:test::doc.pdf


But, Im not clear why "xpdf 'test doc.pdf'" works.



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Bill Moseley
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