Recent Steam Beta change broke escaping apostrophe in game path and thus launching

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#5546 · opened 2018-06-29 by boombatower · updated 2018-07-10 · 7 comments · github

Bboombatower 2018-06-29 github

Your system information

Steam client version (build number or date): Jun 27 2018 at 22:28:25 (1530140322)
Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): openSUSE Tumbleweed
Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
Have you checked for system updates?: Yes (pending, but not relevant)

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Sometime in the last several weeks launching Civilization games stopped working.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

Attempt to launch Sid Meier's Civilization V
Watch preparing to launch box come and go
Sadly view a screen without the game running

Workarounds

Launching the game directly via the executable works. Also entering ./Civ5XP "%command%" in set launch options works as well. The core problem appears to be the escaping done to the apostrophe in the game name.

If I change the launch options to echo "%command%" the following is printed.

'/vol/ssd/0_256G/steamlib/steamapps/common/Sid Meier'''s Civilization V/./Civ5XP'

And when run from terminal the following is included in output:

/bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
/bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file

The triple single quote does not work the way it is desired.

Also changing to the following works further confirming escaping.

cd /vol/ssd/0_256G/steamlib/steamapps/common/Sid\ Meier\'s\ Civilization\ V/; ./Civ5XP

Mmoozaad 2018-06-29 github

Confirming this is an issue with Civ 5 and 6. Respective workarounds are setting launch options to:

./Civ5XP "%command%"

./Civ6 "%command%"

Looks like bad escaping on the aposthrope in "Meier's"?

Cconrev 2018-06-29 github

I can also confirm this on other games, Klei Entertainment's Don't Starve Together also fails to launch with the following error
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching "
/bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file

Edit : i think this basically breaks every game that has an apostrophe on its name.

Cconrev 2018-07-05 github

@Plagman is there any more logs/data that you need to help solve this issue? This breaks too many games in my libraries and it's a bit annoying to deal with.

Jjurgel 2018-07-05 github

Happened to me too, game's name is "The Lion's Song"
Works well from terminal.

System Information:

Steam client version (build number or date): Jun 29 2018 at 19:05:50 (1530312634)
Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Ubuntu 18.04
Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes

PPlagman 2018-07-06 github

This should be fixed in the next Beta, apologies for the inconvenience.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2018-07-09 github

Closing as fixed in the 2018-07-09 Steam Client Beta.

Bboombatower 2018-07-10 github

Confirmed, thank you.

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