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| author |  Arun Prakash Jana <engineerarun@gmail.com> | 2018-08-15 08:39:31 +0530 |
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| committer | Arun Prakash Jana <engineerarun@gmail.com> | 2018-08-16 20:13:31 +0530 |
| commit | f0ca1e778544d852ef04cf637d64ea1f94e43ddc (patch) | |
| tree | 6c8f1dfefe7eaf15606e5142fe89785181755d21 /README.md | |
| parent | 1d6a36ae18dea3d2bfcb5f4a839acf343a220533 (diff) | |
| download | nnn-f0ca1e778544d852ef04cf637d64ea1f94e43ddc.tar.gz | |
Document that filenames are not unquoted
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@@ -389,6 +389,8 @@ To wrap each file path within single quotes, export `NNN_QUOTE_ON`: export NNN_QUOTE_ON=1 This is particularly useful if you are planning to copy the whole string to the shell to run a command. Quotes can be toggled at runtime using <kbd>^T</kbd>. +Note that the filename is not escaped. So copying may still fail for filenames having quote(s) in them. + #### copy file paths when X is missing A very common scenario on headless remote servers connected via SSH. As the clipboard is missing, `nnn` copies the path names to the tmp file `/tmp/nnncp$USER`. |