Public bug reported:
The following line in ~/.xpdfrc makes xpdf run ls (with the output in
the console that xpdf was launched from):
bind b any run(ls)
This seems to be the correct behaviour.
However, the following lines in ~/.xpdfrc don't work:
bind c any run(ls -l)
bind d any run(ls %f)
For example, when I press c, xpdf says
Error: Invalid command syntax: 'run(ls'
Error: Invalid command syntax: '-l)'
Based on my reading of the man page for xpdf, I believe this is a bug:
xpdf should run ls -l when c is pressed, and run ls %f where %f is
replaced with the currently loaded pdf filename when d is pressed.
This is annoying, because I'd like to pass the currently loaded pdf
filename as an argument to a script, and I can't see how to do this
because of this bug.
Adding quotation marks and/or trying to backslash-escape the space
between ls and -l doesn't seem to help.
Version information:
$ apt-cache policy xpdf
xpdf:
Installed: 3.02-21
Candidate: 3.02-21
Version table:
*** 3.02-21 0
500 http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Complete ~/.xpdfrc:
$ cat .xpdfrc
bind b any run(ls)
bind c any run(ls -l)
bind d any run(ls %f)
** Affects: xpdf (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
run in xpdfrc parsed incorrectly making arguments impossible
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