Action Standard token %F not working with multiple files and file names and directories with white spaces

[christoph-petzold]

 * Nemo version (nemo --version 4.4.2)
 * Is issue with desktop or windowed nemo?
 * Distribution - (Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS)
 * 64 bit

Issue
If you create an action for the use with multiple files and the files or the foulder contain white spaces you cannot use %F to iterate over the file paths.

Steps to reproduce

1. Create an action:

[Nemo Action]
Active=true
Name=Test
Comment=
Exec=/opt/test.sh %F
Icon-Name=emblem-videos
Selection=notnone
Extensions=any
Terminal=true

2. Create file hierarchy:
   mkdir /opt/test folder

/opt/test folder/test 1.txt
/opt/test folder/test 2.txt

3. Create /opt/test.sh

#!/bin/bash
#echo "Test";
#IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b");

var="$@";
vars=( $var );

for uri in "${vars[@]}";
do
printf "$uri";
printf "\n";
done;

sleep 5;

4. Open nemo, go to /opt/test folder/, Mark both files "test 1.txt" and "test 2.txt", right klick one file and then left click context menu 'Test' action

Result

/opt/test
folder/test
1.txt
/opt/test
folder/test
2.txt

Expected behaviour

/opt/test folder/test 1.txt
/opt/test folder/test 2.txt

[BujuArena]

This is still relevant. I encountered this issue when trying to implement my TortoiseSVN Nemo actions.

[dendarrion]

I just encountered the same issue. There seems to be 2 workarounds for this.

1. From this fix in Arch Wiki, use Quote=double like this:

test.nemo_action

[Nemo Action]
Active=true
Name=Test
Comment=
Exec=/tmp/test.sh %F
Icon-Name=emblem-videos
Selection=any
Extensions=any
Quote=double

test.sh

#!/bin/bash
#echo "Test";
notify-send "debug" "param received by the script is $1"
notify-send "debug2" "param received by the script is $@" # This does not show

IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b") read -ra vars <<< "$@"
for uri in "${vars[@]}";
do
    notify-send "URI" "$uri"
done;

sleep 5;

However, upon testing, this combines the selected filenames:
notify-send

URI
/tmp/test folder/test 1.txt /tmp/test folder/test 2.txt
---
debug
param received by the script is /tmp/test folder/test 1.txt

This leaves the problem of separating the two paths.

2. Based on this sample.nemo_action, define a separator like this:

test.nemo_action

[Nemo Action]
Active=true
Name=Test
Comment=
Exec=/tmp/test.sh %F
Icon-Name=emblem-videos
Selection=any
Extensions=any
Quote=double
Separator=%

test.sh

#!/bin/bash
#echo "Test";
notify-send "debug" "param received by the script is $1"
notify-send "debug2" "param received by the script is $@"

IFS='%' read -ra vars <<< "$@"
for uri in "${vars[@]}";
do
    notify-send "URI" "$uri"
done;

sleep 5;

Notification from the notify-send:

URI
/tmp/test folder/test 2.txt
---
URI
/tmp/test folder/test 1.txt
---
debug2
param received by the script is /tmp/test folder/test 1.txt%/tmp/test folder/test 2.txt
---
debug
param received by the script is /tmp/test folder/test 1.txt%/tmp/test folder/test 2.txt

I think you can use any separator you'd like, although I suggest characters not commonly used in filenames and directories to avoid trouble.

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[BujuArena]

I no longer use Nemo, but if this hasn't been addressed, it still affects my TortoiseSVN Nemo actions.