Bug#754521: gnome-mplayer: Files with # in the name are not played

[Sebastian Ramacher]

Control: tags -1 + moreinfo

On 2014-07-11 22:28:28, Eduardo Klosowski wrote:
> Package: gnome-mplayer
> Version: 1.0.9-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Files with # in the name are not opening in gnome-mplayer, if you try to
> open the video with direct terminal mplayer works perfectly, but with
> gnome-mplayer is stopped and can not be given play.
> 
> Output terminal:
> $ gnome-mplayer #file.mkv

Well, # denotes the start of comment in most (all?) shells. So you need to quote
it properly: run gnome-mplayer \#file.mkv or gnome-mplayer "#file.mkv". If that
doesn't work, there is a bug, but I suspect it's just a case of your shell
ignoring everything after #.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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