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cmcanulty

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From: Beulah, Michigan

Registered: 2014-05-10

Posts: 278

keyboard shortcut

I have tried putting quotes everywhere to escape the space in his folder name. I am trying to make a keyboard shortcut to a directory with a space in the name and nothing works. Here is the latest quote i have tries. Any suggestions?
catfish--path="/Home/cmcanulty/Documents/Chess pdf" as ctl super C
I use that command for other folders without spaces and they work for example
catfish --path=/Home/cmcanulty/Documents/Music  as ctl super B

eriefisher

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From: ON, Canada

Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 746

Re: keyboard shortcut

Try just escaping just the file/folder name rather than the entire path. I avoid multi word file/folder by using a "-" if needed.

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cmcanulty

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From: Beulah, Michigan

Registered: 2014-05-10

Posts: 278

Re: keyboard shortcut

Reply I have tried " around the entire path and also " around just the folder with a space and both say no such folder here is the path to the location
/home/cmcanulty/Documents/Chess/Chess pdf
so  I tried
catfish--path="/home/cmcanulty/Documents/Chess/"Chess pdf"
and
catfish--path=/home/cmcanulty/Documents/Chess/Chess pdf"
I can't send an error screenshot as the error disappears as soon as I click screenshot
neither works it just says error no such path or directory

eriefisher

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From: ON, Canada

Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 746

Re: keyboard shortcut

Another couple of thoughts, you know the path can you just add the "-" in Chess pdf?

Also try single quotes 'Chess pdf'

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kwizzz

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Registered: 2024-11-10

Posts: 32

Re: keyboard shortcut

Reply I have tried " around the entire path and also " around just the folder with a space and both say no such folder here is the path to the location
/home/cmcanulty/Documents/Chess/Chess pdf
so  I tried
catfish--path="/home/cmcanulty/Documents/Chess/"Chess pdf"
and
catfish--path=/home/cmcanulty/Documents/Chess/Chess pdf"
I can't send an error screenshot as the error disappears as soon as I click screenshot
neither works it just says error no such path or directory

Are you sure that you have a space between `catfish` and `--path`?  As `catfish--path` would result in the error message that you described.

Try

catfish --path='/home/cmcanulty/Documents/Chess/Chess pdf'

cmcanulty

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From: Beulah, Michigan

Registered: 2014-05-10

Posts: 278

Re: keyboard shortcut

that worked but the strange thing is it lists it as  ctl super L even though my c  key works fine and ctl super c opens it! weird  what a stupid mistake I was doing, thanks