461742 - Dashes in command line arguments sometimes handled as a command line flags

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Alex Karasev]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; ru; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070400 SUSE/3.0.1-0.1 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.12 (20071114)

Thunderbird handles dashes in a command line arguments incorrectly.
When an argument contains a sequence of space and dash (' -') argument is truncated.
There is also a warining in the console: Warning: unrecognized command line flag -



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter in the console: thunderbird -compose subject="The subject with - dash"

Actual Results:  
New message window is opened with the subject: The subject with

Expected Results:  
New message window is opened with a subject: The subject with - dash

Comment 1

[Alex Karasev]

Tried with subject, body and attachment parameters. Reproduced for each parameter.

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

wfm WinXP / TB Trunk 24.0a1 (2013-05-25)
may or may not be broken on TB2 (which used partially different parameter system, too), but we no longer fix bugs there
unless shown otherwise, I assume this works under Linux, too

This is what I tested (all working as expected)

C:\Programme\Daily\thunderbird.exe -purgecaches -p Profile.Daily -no-remote -compose "subject='The subject with - dash',body='test body with - dash',attachment='C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\UserXXX\Desktop\test - dash.txt'"

C:\Programme\Daily\thunderbird.exe -purgecaches -p Profile.Daily -no-remote -compose "subject='The subject with -compose',body='test body with -compose',attachment='C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\UserXXX\Desktop\schrott2 -compose.txt'"

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments_%28Thunderbird%29