[Remind-Fans] Backslashes Before Spaces in Remind + Growlnotify Popup?

[Mike Harris]

(8/15/06 8:57 PM) Mike Harris <mjharris-lists at rcn.com> wrote:

> I've whacked my head considerably against this for the
> better part of an hour, and I'm stuck.
> 
> nohup remind -z1 -k'growlnotify --sticky --appIcon "Alarm Clock Pro" --title "Reminder" --message "%s"' ~/.reminders &
> 
> With this test entry:
> 
> REM August 15 2006 AT 20:56 DURATION 1:00 MSG This is a test.
> 
> Why does the pop-up instead show the text:
> 
> This\ is\ a\ test.
> 
> With backslashes before every space?
> 
> This is drivin' me bonkers!

Just as a follow-up to the above, please note that for some reason, the above simply doesn't trigger -- at all -- if I don't have quotes around the "%s".

And I can't Google "%s" apparently, because Google ignores the percentage sign.

Mike