Great PDF-viewer: llpp Also, a question

I just discovered llpp in the AUR. It's a great PDF-viewer that is extremely fast and remembers where I quit the file (next time you open that pdf, it opens at the page that you left last time)
If I open files with SpaceFM everything works great. But, if I try to open from the terminal, it doesn't open files with names that contain spaces (which llpp DOES poen when started from SpaceFM). For instance, if I try to open a file named /home/foo/bar/Instructions for you car.pfd by typing llpp /home/foo/bar/Instructions for you car.pfd then it won't open. llpp will complain that it did'nt find file /home/foo/bar/Instructions
Of course I could rename these files, either by hand or with a script, but this doesn't seem necessary, as I can open them when I start llpp with SpaceFM.
Question: any tips on how to open these sort of files from the terminal? THANKS. Sorry for the verbosity.

essence-of-foo wrote:
Or you could just get rid of the spaces in the filenames with one simple shell command:
rename " " "_" *.pdf
This will replace all spaces with underscores in the file names.
Not exactly, it seems to replace only the first one:
$ touch "1 2 3.pdf"
$ ls
1 2 3.pdf
$ rename " " "_" *.pdf
$ ls
1_2 3.pdf
Let's run it again:
$ rename " " "_" *.pdf
$ ls
1_2_3.pdf
$ pacman -Qo rename
/usr/bin/rename is owned by util-linux 2.24.1-4
man rename wrote:DESCRIPTION
rename will rename the specified files by replacing the first occurrence of expression in their name by replacement.
perl-rename can do it, but it uses a different syntax.
$ /usr/bin/vendor_perl/rename 's/ /_/g' *
$ ls
1_2_3.pdf

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