[GRASS-dev] wxgrass fails with white space in grass data path

[Markus Neteler]

Hi,

to test if and when GRASS fails with white space in the data path, I have
changed (on my Linux box) "$HOME/grassdata/" to $HOME/grass data/".

Besides a failure in command line startup:

grass63 "$HOME/grass data/spearfish60/user1"
Cleaning up temporary files.....
Starting GRASS ...
The LOCATION "neteler" does not exist. Please create first

BUT:
ls -la "$HOME/grass data/spearfish60/user1"
total 112
drwxr-xr-x  16 neteler ssi  4096 Aug 17 18:36 .
drwx------  10 neteler ssi  4096 Aug  6 13:54 ..
-rw-------   1 neteler ssi 28956 Aug 17 18:36 .bash_history
...

I found that "wxgrass" fails, too. This could be of interest for the
MS-Windows portability:

GRASS 6.3.cvs (nc_spm_06):~/grassaddons/gui > Sorry
<data/nc_spm_06/neteler/.tmp/bartok/15316.2.ppm> is not a valid option
Sorry <data/nc_spm_06/neteler/.tmp/bartok/15316.2.pgm> is not a valid option
Sorry <data/nc_spm_06/neteler/.tmp/bartok/15316.0> is not a valid option
Could not run g.pnmcomp

GRASS 6.3.cvs (nc_spm_06):~/grassaddons/gui > g.gisenv
GISDBASE=/nfsmnt/ssi0/ssi/neteler/grass data
DEBUG=0
MAPSET=neteler
LOCATION_NAME=nc_spm_06
GRASS_GUI=text

I recommend that (wxgrass) developers also put a white space into their
grassdata/
path to easily trap problems like above. Most problems will be trivial
quoting
issues.

Markus


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