Re: g_spawn_async_with_pipes error while opening a file

[Evan Martin <martine cs washington edu>]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 06:35:15AM -0800, Neil Hodge wrote:
> /usr/bin/nomadii --internal --send
> "/mnt/disk2/home2/nhodge/music/rock/Metallica - Garage Inc. [Disc 2] -
> 01 - Helpless.mp3"
>
> (i.e., with a command line option that requires opening a file on the
> local file system) and I keep getting the following error:
>
> Error: Could not send file "/mnt/disk2/home2/nhodge/music/rock/Metallica
> - Garage Inc. [Disc 2] - 01 - Helpless.mp3": reading file - No such file
> or directory

Quotes are used by shells to indicate the characters between them are
one parameter.  g_spawn_async_with_pipes takes an array for argv, so the
separation between parameters is explicit.  You should be passing it the
filename without quotes.

It cannot open a file called 
  "foo"
because no such file exists-- it is named
  foo
.

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      Evan Martin
martine cs washington edu
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