How to open a file with special character in their path?

Question

I tried to run it from total commander, I tried to make a link to it

/media/DATA/#TO_BACKUP/_MUSIC/MUSIC2/Black Eyed Peas - The Time (Dirty Bit).avi

but it says

Failed to execute child process "/media/DATA/" (Permission denied)

Opening the full location from MediaPlayer does not work (open location)

Location not found

I can open it slowly by navigating in the slow file open dialog, but I would like to open it from totalcmd or by created link or by passing full location.

P.S. Before that I have opened the DATA Partition.

The answer is not running from wine. You either want the video to run or want to run the video from the wine compatibility. — Luis Alvarado, Jan 16 '11 at 23:50

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 08 '14 at 16:27

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I think you have to use a media player, like mplayer from console given the location as a parameter, for example

mplayer /home/user/myvideo.avi

Obviously changing the location of the video

edited Jan 08 '14 at 16:27

Braiam

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answered Jan 16 '11 at 17:29

Luciano Facchinelli

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it works, thx a lot. – UAdapter Jan 16 '11 at 18:25
You could also have just escaped the # character with \# – Thomas Ward Jan 08 '14 at 17:04

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 08 '14 at 17:00

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Put the path between quotes

ex: "/path to/my folder/"

or put a backslash before the special character

ex: /path\ to/my\ folder/

answered Jan 08 '14 at 17:00

DeaDSouL

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How to open a file with special character in their path?

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