Re: Problem with spaces in filenames

[Peter Harvey <pah06 uow edu au>]

On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 23:51, Lars Strojny wrote:
> On Fri, 14 May 2004 13:39:37 +0200
> Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn ant uni-bremen de> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > I used gimp simply as an example. Actually i want to resize images with 
> > ImageMagick simply by dropping them onto the launcher.
> > 
> > Ok, i will wait then until Nautilus-2.6 becomes stable on getoo.
> [...]
> 
> You can do this by using the nautilus-script-engine. Create a small
> script which does your action and add their an entry, which 
> replaces %20 with " " and then gimp and the other stuff should
> work.
> 
> Example:
> #!/bin/bash
> FILES=$(echo ${NAUTILUS_I_FORGET_THE_NAME_OF_THE_VAR} | sed s/"%20"/" "/g)
> gimp-remote -n ${FILES}

A possibly better piece of shell script is this:

FILE=$(echo -e "$(echo ${NAUTILUS_I_FORGET_THE_NAME_OF_THE_VAR} | sed -e 's/^file:\/\///' -e 's/\\/\\\\/g' -e 's/%/\\x/g')")

I use this my gnome thumbnailer scripts to convert file URIs into usable
filenames. Maybe in this case, if there is no file:// prefix, you can
drop part of the sed expression, to create a script called launch-gimp:

#!/bin/bash
FILE=$(echo -e "$(echo ${NAUTILUS_I_FORGET_THE_NAME_OF_THE_VAR} | sed -e 's/\\/\\\\/g' -e 's/%/\\x/g')")
gimp-remote -n ${FILE}

For those interested, it:
     1. Uses sed to convert any \ to \\, and % to \x.
     2. Gives the result to echo -e to interpret any \x?? sequences to
        the matching characters (reading the ?? as hexadecimal numbers).
     3. Stores the result.

Hope that helps.

-- 
Peter Harvey.
Mostly Quiet.