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Flapi invalid app-name detected

August 02, 2023 — BarryK

Forum member kamemo discovered this problem when creating a custom entry for the Tor browser:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=9285

As they discovered, both a space character and a dash "-" character are invalid. The problem arises because the app-name gets used as a variable in the bash script. In bash, variable names should only be a-z, A-Z, 0-9 or an underscore. As far as I can make out from quick reading of some online posts, even UTF-8 characters are not allowed.

A fix has been committed:

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/4c2a06e1e0692ee7453de06cf2163a0a7f529e7c   

Tags: easy