From 0c96007c0a7e7cb317fb6296e180bfe3caa46c9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: linsui <36977733+linsui@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 18:53:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Pass the data as a string (#8923)

closes https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/8922
---
 buildres/linux/jabrefHost.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/buildres/linux/jabrefHost.py b/buildres/linux/jabrefHost.py
index aedf2d81580..557768fc9f6 100755
--- a/buildres/linux/jabrefHost.py
+++ b/buildres/linux/jabrefHost.py
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ def send_message(message):
 
 def add_jabref_entry(data):
     """Send string via cli as literal to preserve special characters"""
-    cmd = str(JABREF_PATH).split() + ["--importBibtex", r"{}".format(data)]
+    cmd = str(JABREF_PATH).split() + ["--importBibtex", r"'{}'".format(data)]
     logging.info("Try to execute command {}".format(cmd))
     response = subprocess.check_output(cmd, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
     logging.info("Called JabRef and got: {}".format(response))