On Tue, 16 Jun 2020, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 16 June 2020 09:33:10 Pisini, John wrote:
In Linux at the command line you need to escape a special character which a space is with a slash. So for a file called 'this is my mp4.mp4' you would write 'this\ is\ my\ mp4.mp4' This does work with Bash's auto fill
Maybe, but "" around the whole thing is easier.
And, because Linux offers so many ways to skin a cat, using bash as your shell, and in the directory containing the file:
$ command this<TAB>
and your command line will be filled: $ command this\ is\ my\ mp4.mp4
Actually, you may be able to view the video using a browser that has file:// support. I've never tried this, but Chrome "does" mp4 internally, I believe. Elsewise maybe Firefox, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, or Palemoon .....
Jonesy