[25971] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.3.8: gnumeric
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Fri Aug 20 20:22:42 2004
To: Kevin W Chen <kchen@mit.edu>
From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@mit.edu>
Date: 20 Aug 2004 20:21:47 -0400
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<daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> (Kevin W Chen) writes:
> Open a file whose name has a space in it from the command line with:
[...]
> gnumeric attempts to open "Assignments.xls" and fails to open the
> correct file.
I think that the bug that causes this is the final lines of
gnumeric_v1.0.6/arch/i386_linux24/bin/gnumeric
gnumeric_v1.0.13/arch/i386_linux24/bin/gnumeric
They execute
exec ${GNOMEDIR}/bin/gnumeric $*
when the better variable choice would have been
exec ${GNOMEDIR}/bin/gnumeric "$@"
(The unquoted $* destroys the user's careful quoting of the file
name; using "$@" preserves the user's whitespace.)
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Jacob Morzinski jmorzins@mit.edu
