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

[Janina Sajka]

It's awkward because it often doesn't stop at spaces. It often also
involves commas, parenthesis, and similar reserved chars.

Christopher Chaltain writes:
> 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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