[Portland-bugs] [Bug 15661] New: xdg-open breaks on spaces in paths when using generic open method

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15661

           Summary: xdg-open breaks on spaces in paths when using generic
                    open method
           Product: Portland
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux (All)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: low
         Component: xdg-utils
        AssignedTo: portland-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: jpcc at bigfoot.com


xdg-utils 1.0.1-2 on Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10

xdg-open tries to detect the desktop environment and falls back to a generic
method using run-mailcap.  There is a bug in this function open_generic() that
means if the path contains a space, the method fails.

e.g.

johncc at liberator:~$ xdg-open Fire\ stockists.txt 
local: 438: stockists.txt: bad variable name
Warning: unknown mime-type for "Fire" -- using "application/*"
Error: no such file "Fire"

To provoke this bug you need to not be running GNOME, KDE or XFCE.  In GNOME
you can fake this by doing:-

unset GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID
touch file\ with\ spaces.txt
xdg-open file\ with\ spaces.txt 

The problem is just missing quotes.  A simple patch fixes it for me.

373c373
<       local file="$(echo "$1" | sed 's%^file://%%')"
---
> 	local file=$(echo "$1" | sed 's%^file://%%')


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