On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 18:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 050114 Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > I'm trying to move a bunch of PDFs which has the words "gentoo" in it > > into a folder marked as "Gentoo/" and somehow I'm not succedding. > ... > > 'Cyrus Imapd-Gentoo.pdf' > > 'Gentoo Linux rsync Mirrors Policy.pdf' > > 'Gentoo chroot.pdf' > > others have offered ways to solve your immediate problem, And I absolutely appreciate it!!
> but the real solution is not to insert spaces into file or directory names: > experienced users of UNIX-type systems use an underline '_' instead. > there are utilities for renaming files/dirs en masse, eg 'rename' 'krename'. As much as I like to not do that, I tend to think that it looks better w/ spaces rather than underscores. One man's meat is another's poison. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 21:05:07 up 13 min, 4 users, load average: 0.29, 0.43, -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
