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

[Karen Lewellen]

Actually, long file names has been a non issue in dos since the dos 7 days. 
still, I do the same thing, just put them in quotes when in either UNIX 
shell I  use.
speaking for myself I do not use any operating system  where long file 
names are an issue.
Karen

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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