Can't compress to .7z with a space in there name

[zelon]

Binary package hint: p7zip

1. in /home/zelon/vmwareImages/Using WinXP in nautilus
2. select any files
3. mouse right button -> make archive...
4. select 7z
5. make

result:

7-Zip (A) 4.43 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Igor Pavlov 2006-09-15
p7zip Version 4.43 (locale=ko_KR.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,2 CPUs)

Error:
Incorrect command line

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

I can confirm this.

[Nick B. (futurepilot)]

Confirming.
Feisty 7.04

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

Can someone please confirm if this issue is also present in Gutsy?

[Nick B. (futurepilot)]

It seems to have been fixed in Gutsy p7zip version 4.51

[Nick B. (futurepilot)]

I take that back. It seems to have broken. It now produces the same error again.
7-Zip (A) 4.43 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Igor Pavlov 2006-09-15
p7zip Version 4.43 (locale=ko_KR.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,2 CPUs)

Error:
Incorrect command line

[Nick B. (futurepilot)]

Except it says 4.51 not 4.43.

[Eric (emwine)]

Confirmed in Gutsy x64. This problem occurs even if the space is above the relevant compression.

eg. if I create a new folder on the desktop, "untitled folder", place something inside it and try to compress to 7z, I get the above error.

home
  user
     Desktop
        untitled folder
            foodir <-- secondary click this and compress to 7z.

[Nick B. (futurepilot)]

I've been fooling around with this an I'm beginning to think this might be a bug in File Roller. I can't reproduce this with Xarchive. If anyone would like to confirm this just install Xarchive
sudo apt-get install xarchive
and try to reproduce it.
Don't try with the Right Click method because I think that is part of File Roller.

[Mika Wahlroos (mpw)]

This is definitely a File Roller bug. It doesn't affect the command-line tools. They can be used for the task just fine assuming that the file names are properly escaped.

Looks like File Roller, on the other hand, does not properly escape the file names when using 7z. Upstream bugzilla claims [1] that a similar bug has been fixed in SVN, and the fix seems to be trivial.

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=429816

[Mika Wahlroos (mpw)]

According to a quick test, the patch attached to the upstream bug seems to fix the issue. I'm willing to test more thoroughly if someone decides that this is worth fixing.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

no need to open a new task for the file-roller one, since it was already reported as bug 106575. thanks.

[Mika Wahlroos (mpw)]

I guess this is just a duplicate of that bug in that case, because this probably isn't really a bug in p7zip either. It seems to be purely a File Roller issue.