Package: xdg-utils Version: 1.1.0~rc1-1 Severity: normal I am using awesome as a window manager and am not using any desktop environment. My /bin/sh points to dash.
Under this condition, I noticed that xdg-open failed to open a local file if (a) path to a local file contains space, and (b) the path is given to xdg-open as encoded URL (e.g, file:///tmp/before\x20after/example.txt). xdg-open, then, tries to decode '\x20' back to ' ' by executing (built-in) printf command in open_generic(). However, this does not work in dash. Unlike bash's built-in, dash's printf apparently lacks the ability to translate \xNN to character. This leads to file not found error. I temprarily workarounded this problem by changing shebang from /bin/sh to /bin/bash. Another workaround is to use coreutils' printf instead of shells' built-in. Neither seems ideal, but they work for me. Regards, -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash xdg-utils depends on no packages. Versions of packages xdg-utils recommends: ii libfile-mimeinfo-perl 0.15-1 Perl module to determine file type ii x11-utils 7.6+1 X11 utilities ii x11-xserver-utils 7.6+1 X server utilities Versions of packages xdg-utils suggests: pn gvfs-bin <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
