I'm trying to use Torrent-Video-Player script but it doesn't works with files that contains spaces. It's a Nautilus script.
#!/bin/bash
xterm -e "peerflix "$1" --vlc"
"test.torrent" -> OK
"test test.torrent" -> Cannot execvp peerflix test : No such file or directory found
Change the line
xterm -e "peerflix "$1" --vlc"
to
xterm -e "peerflix '$1' --vlc"
or
xterm -e "peerflix \"$1\" --vlc"
The first form is equivalent to:
xterm -e "peerflix " $1 " --vlc"
It's not what you were expecting.
-e accepts multiple parameters (so that it would pass them as parameters as well). Your solution might break if you have other special characters inside (like quotes) What you want is xterm -e 'peerflix' "$1" '--vlc' Or you can omit single quotes xterm -e peerflix "$1" --vlc. However, it does not solve the problem of files with leading slashes. This should work better (in case peerflix supports it, but I don't know). xterm -e peerflix --vlc -- "$1"
$1 has to be passed to peerflix. It is not to be expanded."peerflix '$1' --vlc" (which clearly expands it). So, in your answer it expands, so I kept that. Looking again at the question confirms my assumption that it should expand (because he is saying that it works without a space and doesn't with arguments containing a space).