cannot run commands that contain a space

Question

dansteen opened this issue 7 years ago · comments

Hi!

Thanks for your work on this! It really increases my productivity with i3.

I did run into one issue, that it is impossible to run a command with a space in the name. I tried:

Then I really went out on a limb and tried

/opt/Pulse\\ SMS/pulse-sms
"'/opt/Pulse SMS/pulse-sms'" (single quotes surrounded by double quotes)
'"/opt/Pulse SMS/pulse-sms"' (double quotes surrounded by single quotes)
'"/opt/Pulse SMS/pulse-sms"' (escaped double quotes surrounded by single quotes)
"'/opt/Pulse SMS/pulse-sms'" (escaped single quotes surrounded by double quotes)

Now, I agree that spaces in names are really horrible things :-) but sometimes I just need to work with them.

Thanks so much!

Daniel Steen · Answer 1 · Thu Jan 04 2018 00:20:07 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

On further analysis, I see that its taking the second part of the name and passing it in as a paramater to the first.

Fabio Ambauen · Answer 2 · Thu Jan 04 2018 03:03:39 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Nice to hear it's useful for you :)

Jup, that's a bug. I guess the check if it's an executable was a bit over-eager and needs to be removed if -e is provided.

It's fixed in the dev branch now, if you want to check. I will push a new release tomorrow.

Thanks for reporting!

Fabio Ambauen · Answer 3 · Thu Jan 04 2018 18:42:28 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

The fix is in master now. Also there is a new release (0.2.3) on Github, PyPI and the AUR.