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xdg-open problems with complex filenames

Submitted by Alexey

Assigned to Jonathan Blandford Blandford @jrb

Link to original bug (#58453)

Description

here is related bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447662

Steps to Reproduce: 1.rename file 'section.zip' to 'section (df ).zip' 2.xdg-open 'xdg-open 'section (df ).zip' Actual Results:
xdg-open 'section (df ).zip' START /usr/bin/7zFM section (df ).zip /usr/bin/xdg-open: eval: line 568: syntax error near unexpected token (' /usr/bin/xdg-open: eval: line 568: /usr/bin/7zFM section (df ).zip'

Expected Results:
just open file

diff --git a/xdg-open b/xdg-open index 0958fdc..55ba2ad 100755 --- a/xdg-open +++ b/xdg-open @@ -562,10 +562,10 @@ search_desktop_file() if [ -x "$command_exec" ] ; then if echo $arguments | grep -iq '%[fFuU]' ; then echo START $command_exec $arguments_exec

  •            eval $command_exec $arguments_exec
  •            eval "$command_exec '$arguments_exec'"
       else
           echo START $command_exec $arguments_exec "$arg"
  •            eval $command_exec $arguments_exec "$arg"
  •            eval "$command_exec '$arguments_exec' '$arg'"
       fi

       if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then

Here is the quick and dirty patch