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Re: Syntax regarding "Exec" instruction in .desktop files

From Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Syntax regarding "Exec" instruction in .desktop files
Date 2020-06-01 20:10 +0200
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On Lu, 01 iun 20, 17:34:10, l0f4r0@tuta.io wrote:
> 1 juin 2020 à 15:25 de wooledg@eeg.ccf.org:
> 
> > I would not even *attempt* to do what you are trying to do here.  Your
> > life would become enormously simpler if you would just put this shell
> > script inside a file, and Exec it as a script.
> >
> > Attempting to in-line a shell script inside an Exec= line is madness.
> >
> Interesting. Is it madness because it becomes too much complicated to 
> write it easily and correctly according to the official specifications 
> (namely quoting/escaping...)? Or for different reasons?

Yes :)

Question for you: how much would it have taken you to write that into a 
script compared to the time you spent trying to get the quoting right?

Kind regards,
Andrei
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Syntax regarding "Exec" instruction in .desktop files l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2020-06-01 15:20 +0200
  Re: Syntax regarding "Exec" instruction in .desktop files Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-06-01 15:30 +0200
    Re: Syntax regarding "Exec" instruction in .desktop files l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2020-06-01 17:40 +0200
      Re: Syntax regarding "Exec" instruction in .desktop files Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-06-01 20:10 +0200
        Re: Syntax regarding "Exec" instruction in .desktop files l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2020-06-01 20:40 +0200
          Re: Syntax regarding "Exec" instruction in .desktop files Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-06-02 07:50 +0200
  Re: Syntax regarding "Exec" instruction in .desktop files l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2020-06-22 19:50 +0200
    Re: Syntax regarding "Exec" instruction in .desktop files Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-06-22 19:50 +0200
    Re: Syntax regarding "Exec" instruction in .desktop files davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2020-06-23 01:00 +0200

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