Exporting a file with whitespaces in its name fails

[dnlfrst]

Issue

Exporting a file that has whitespaces in its name on Google Drive

gdrive export <FILE_ID>

fails:

Unable to create new file 'File name with whitespaces.pdf': open File name with whitespaces.pdf: no such file or directory

Solution

The argument (i.e. the file name) to the open call should probably be escaped or quoted to prevent the above error.

[thwarted]

This also has a problem with a document name contains a slash.

Unable to create new file 'SuchandSuch/Documentation for X.htm': open SuchandSuch/Documentation for X.htm: no such file or directory

doing a mkdir SuchandSuch and trying again gets past this. Obviously slashes cause a problem with local filesystems, but needing to make the directory in order to export a single file is non-obvious (well, obvious to someone who knows what "no such file or directory" means when a filename has a slash, but that's not necessarily common knowledge).