sharkdp/fd

[BUG] White-space in folder names causes command to fail

danielkrajnik opened this issue · 2 comments

danielkrajnik commented

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  • I have read the troubleshooting section and still think this is a bug.

Describe the bug you encountered:

I'm trying to run fd . -e eml -x mu extract --save-all {} --target-dir {.} and it fails whenever a path has a space in it:

error: target 'Sent' is not a writable directory

Describe what you expected to happen:

It should surround path names with quotes to protect white spaces in folder names.

What version of fd are you using?

fd 9.0.0

Which operating system / distribution are you on?

Linux 6.6.9-arch1-1 x86_64

LSB Version:    n/a
Distributor ID: EndeavourOS
Description:    EndeavourOS Linux
Release:        rolling
Codename:       rolling
tavianator commented

I will double check, but I'm betting this is a bug in mu rather than fd

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danielkrajnik commented

Sorry, you are right - this doesn't work in mu: mu extract --save-all "Sent Items/240.eml" --target-dir Sent\ Items/240 neither with escaped space nor surrounded with quotes

error: target 'Sent' is not a writable directory

On the upside I could quickly rename all these directories with fd-find and rename :)

fd " " -x rename " " "-"

Sorry to bother and thank you for the tip