a *very* odd question especially for me. Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net> wrote

[Willem van der Walt]

The loop in a script suggested earlier to work on a number of files would 
e.g. fail on file names containing spaces.
Some characters like & and ! can also produce some rather interesting 
results in scripts.
Regards, Willem

On Wed, 29 Jul 2015, Christopher Chaltain wrote:

> How is dealing with file names with blanks in them awkward? I put those file 
> names in quotes, just like I do in Windows and other operating systems. Maybe 
> DOS and the old 8.3 file names didn't support spaces in them, but I would 
> hardly consider this to be an advantage of DOS over Linux.
>
> On 07/29/2015 12:50 AM, Willem van der Walt wrote:
>> Hi,
>> You said:
>> for example, dealing with filenames
>> that contain spaces is awkward.
>> One of the best things about unix, is that some one else likely had the
>> same problem as what you are having now.
>> There is likely a tool written to solve exactly one's problem.
>> In the case of spaces in file names as well as other characters that can
>> cause problems, the tool is called detox.
>> It, for example, changes the & character into the word and.
>> People using GUIs invariably create those sentences for file names,
>> punctuation and all!
>> Regards, Willem
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, 28 Jul 2015, Joel Roth wrote:
>> 
>>> Janina Sajka wrote:
>>>> I love scripting. It's fun, and it solves problems for me.
>>> 
>>> There is a version of Linux, GoboLinux, with major utilities written
>>> as shell scripts.
>>> 
>>> **And** there are some well-known limitations and
>>> infelicities in bash, for example, dealing with filenames
>>> that contain spaces is awkward.
>>> 
>>> Joel
>>> 
>>>> Janina
>>>> 
>>> 
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