On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 06:32:18PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > Wrong. There's a reason why people with half a clue don't put > spaces in paths, and inadequacy of tools is not it. Unless your > computer can read minds, it has no way of telling when the > whitespace's supposed to be input separator, and when it's just > a part of filename.
It's not just the shells. Give me a list of space-separated filenames with spaces in them, and I won't be able to tell you how many files are in the list either. ("Look for .xls or .txt or..." isn't a valid solution. Forcing all files to have n-letter extensions on their names is just another form of breakage.) -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss