fileNewForCommandlineArg

Creates a #GFile with the given argument from the command line. The value of @arg can be either a URI, an absolute path or a relative path resolved relative to the current working directory. This operation never fails, but the returned object might not support any I/O operation if @arg points to a malformed path.

Note that on Windows, this function expects its argument to be in UTF-8 -- not the system code page. This means that you should not use this function with string from argv as it is passed to main(). g_win32_get_command_line() will return a UTF-8 version of the commandline. #GApplication also uses UTF-8 but g_application_command_line_create_file_for_arg() may be more useful for you there. It is also always possible to use this function with #GOptionContext arguments of type %G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME.

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