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

Eduardo Klosowski eduardo_klosowski at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 13 15:40:02 UTC 2014


I escape the #, but it did not work again.

$ gnome-mplayer \#file.mkv
$ gnome-mplayer "#file.mkv"

Changing the gnome-mplayer to mplayer the video plays correctly. The
biggest problem is to open on Thunar (Xfce file manager), but not works
in the shell too.

Was a recent update, I played these videos awhile ago.

Any file that contains # is not opening. A simple test I did in Thunar
was rename a file that was playing, adding # in name and by double click
did stop playing the file. Another file with # in the name, removing the
# and played correctly by double click.


Em 13-07-2014 10:01, Sebastian Ramacher escreveu:
> 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
> 



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