Understand?
Gary
At 01:49 PM 4/2/00 -0400, you wrote:
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> That's because the "for ... in ...; do ...; done" command interprets any
> white space as separators - and, I think, without respect for quoting, or
> backslash-escaping.
>
> So how do you get around it? I am out of ideas. I am simply resigned to
> never using a filename with a space in it - which is difficult to do when
> you work with Windows often. I myself keep spaces away, but anytime I get
> a file from another Windows user, I try to rename it, usually converting
> spaces to underscores.
>
Put quotes around any filenames with spaces in 'em, i.e.: "This is a Filename
With A Space.txt" rather than This is a Filename With A Space.txt
Understand?
John
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