- I use thunar as a file manager
- I want to use "custom actions" on certain files (Thunar --> Edit --> Configure Custom Actions...)
- the command I use is:
xfce4-terminal -e "md5sum '%F'" --hold
This works fine, except when the file path or file name contains a space. It just won't work as intended because the file can then not be found.
I think this is because the spaces in the file path are not automatically escaped
How do I solve this problem? Thank you in advance
CodePudding user response:
You can easily escape a character with by placing a \
in front of it.
CodePudding user response:
Seems like Thunar replaces %F
with (potentially multiple) correctly quoted paths. Putting this inside quotes will ruin the already perfect quoting. From https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/custom-actions
Never quote field codes
You need a way to pass an argument list to a command running inside xfce4-terminal
, luckily man xfce4-terminal
lists:
-x, --execute
Execute the remainder of the command line inside the terminal
Therefore, try
xfce4-terminal --hold -x md5sum %F