GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 590468
file-roller-2.27.2+ won't archive files with spaces (" ") in them
Last modified: 2009-08-02 08:35:53 UTC
Please describe the problem: File-roller as of version 2.27.2 and newer won't archive files with spaces (" ") in them. It seems as the underlaying layer/command doesn't accept the format in which file-roller passes the file name. First saw this problem in the Ubuntu version 2.27.3-0ubuntu1 of file-roller. Went on to try building different versions of file-roller from original source packages, using default ./configure. File-roller 2.27.1 and earlier handled the spacy-filenames just fine, while the versions 2.27.2 and 2.27.3 ran into said problem. Steps to reproduce: 1. Create a file, containg a space (" ") in its name. Let us say "hello world" as an example. 2. Start file-roller 3. Create an archive of type tar, ar or jar 4. Try adding the file from step 1 Actual results: I recieve an error such as this. tar: hello%20world: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors The file is not added to the archive Expected results: The file to be added to the archive, without any error message. Does this happen every time? Yes Other information: Originally reported as a Ubuntu bug in Launchpad, https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/406762
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.