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

[Janina Sajka]

Thank you, Willem. I hadn't known detox until you mentioned it just now!

Looks like my bash script with all the tr's is going to be history!

I love this environment. There's always something useful to learn.

Janina

Willem van der Walt writes:
> 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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