Ex() in /etc/skel/.bashrc

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Not sure if this is the right place to post this.

The default .bashrc ( /etc/skel/.bashrc) for Manjaro contains a function “ex - archive extractor”, but when I tried to extract a file with space with it, I got an error:

$ ex "file name.tar.gz" 
bash: [: file: binary operator expected
'file name.tar.gz' is not a valid file

I guess this is because $1 is not quoted in .bashrc?

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Seems to work here.
I guess you have spaces in your file name.
Yeah … it might break then.
(so will a lot of other things … generally *nix doesnt use spaces in filenames)

…though I suppose it may be a simple fix…

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Substitute the first line of that function by… :arrow_down:

if [ -f "$1" ] ; then
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I agree with you that using spaces in file names is a bad idea but that’s not an acceptable reasons for shell scripts to break ! Quoting variables in bash is the first thing anyone intending to use bash seriously has to learn.

So yeah, definitely a bug in the .bashrc !
Since /etc/skel/.bashrc is provided by a Manjaro specific package, it is easy to fix !
Failing to do so would really look amateurish in total contradiction with what Manjaro stands for.

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okey doke. no need to be alarmist.
The relevant people will be notified and probably fix it ASAP.
I never even knew the thing existed … I wouldnt be surprised to find it is from years ago previous team members and never thought of again.

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I don’t know when it was introduced, but it was either way already in my ~/.bashrc when I first installed Manjaro in April 2019. :man_shrugging:

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