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Spaces break line in $ENV_VARIABLE #3632

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solesensei opened this issue Oct 24, 2018 · 5 comments
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Spaces break line in $ENV_VARIABLE #3632

solesensei opened this issue Oct 24, 2018 · 5 comments

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@solesensei
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solesensei commented Oct 24, 2018 •
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Hey, there.
I stucked with same problem as here
Example:

SoleSensei@SoleSurface:~$ $BROWSER
-bash: /mnt/c/Program: No such file or directory
SoleSensei@SoleSurface:~$ export BROWSER='"/mnt/c/Program\ Files/Firefox/firefox.exe"'
SoleSensei@SoleSurface:~$ $BROWSER
-bash: "/mnt/c/Program\: No such file or directory
SoleSensei@SoleSurface:~$ export BROWSER="/mnt/c/Program\ Files/Firefox/firefox.exe"
SoleSensei@SoleSurface:~$ $BROWSER
-bash: /mnt/c/Program\: No such file or directory
SoleSensei@SoleSurface:~$ export BROWSER=/mnt/c/Program\ Files/Firefox/firefox.exe
SoleSensei@SoleSurface:~$ $BROWSER
-bash: /mnt/c/Program: No such file or directory
SoleSensei@SoleSurface:~$ export BROWSER='/mnt/c/Program Files/Firefox/firefox.exe'
SoleSensei@SoleSurface:~$ $BROWSER
-bash: /mnt/c/Program: No such file or directory
SoleSensei@SoleSurface:~$ xdg-open https://github.com
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 851: /usr/bin/xdg-open: /mnt/c/Program: not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 851: /usr/bin/xdg-open: /mnt/c/Program: not found
xdg-open: no method available for opening 'https://github.com'

Path just breaks on first space. Any ideas?

_Originally posted by @solesensei in #1766 (comment)
@benhillis
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You'll need to quote your environment variable usage:
"$BROWSER"

https://superuser.com/questions/616351/spaces-in-linux-environmental-variables

@solesensei
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solesensei commented Oct 24, 2018 •
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@benhillis, okay, but what about xdg-open and other applications using unquoted environment variables?

@benhillis
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@solesensei - Their scripts should be updated because they are incorrect. Spaces are not common in Linux paths, but they are not illegal either.

@solesensei
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okay, thanks, so i'm closing issue. And trying not to use Windows paths with spaces in WLS.

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imadelq commented Sep 10, 2020

I have used :
export BROWSER='eval "/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe"'

It worked for me.

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