exec: long string

asked 2013-06-08 09:50:13 +0000

nichtleiter
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updated 2013-06-08 09:52:42 +0000

Hi there,

i simply want to open an ebook via i3-msg. To do so, i tried to execute the following command

i3-msg exec "xdg-open \"/home/johannes/Calibre Library/Robert Faludi/Building Wireless Sensor Networks_ With ZigBee, XBee, Arduino, and Processing (597)/Building Wireless Sensor Networks_ With ZigBee, XBee, Arduino, and Processing - Robert Faludi.pdf\""

unfortunately it doesn't work and the command returns

ERROR: Your command: exec xdg-open "/home/johannes/Calibre Library/Robert Faludi/Building Wireless Sensor Networks_ With ZigBee, XBee, Arduino, and Processing (597)/Building Wireless Sensor Networks_ With ZigBee, XBee, Arduino, and Processing - Robert Faludi.pdf"
ERROR:                                                                                                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ERROR: Expected one of these tokens: <end>, '[', 'move', 'exec', 'exit', 'restart', 'reload', 'border', 'layout', 'append_layout', 'workspace', 'focus', 'kill', 'open', 'fullscreen', 'split', 'floating', 'mark', 'resize', 'rename', 'nop', 'scratchpad', 'mode'
[{"success":true},{"success":false,"parse_error":true,"error":"Expected one of these tokens: <end>, '[', 'move', 'exec', 'exit', 'restart', 'reload', 'border', 'layout', 'append_layout', 'workspace', 'focus', 'kill', 'open', 'fullscreen', 'split', 'floating', 'mark', 'resize', 'rename', 'nop', 'scratchpad', 'mode'","input":"exec xdg-open \"/home/johannes/Calibre Library/Robert Faludi/Building Wireless Sensor Networks_ With ZigBee, XBee, Arduino, and Processing (597)/Building Wireless Sensor Networks_ With ZigBee, XBee, Arduino, and Processing - Robert Faludi.pdf\"","errorposition":"                                                                                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^"}]

However if i execute a comparable command

i3-msg exec "xdg-open \"/home/johannes/Calibre Library/D. J. Amit/Statistical Physics an Introductory Course (164)/Statistical Physics an Introductory Course - D. J. Amit.pdf\""

the specified ebook is opened flawlessly. Of course both files exist.

Does anybody know how to successfully execute both commands with i3-msg exec?