Re: shell script question

[Jefferson Kirkland]

At 12:36 PM 1/20/2003 -0500, Bayard R. Coolidge wrote:

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>>> Otherwise, if one of your directories contained
>>>spaces or other shell meta-characters, it would
>>> get mangled by the shell
>>>before it got passed to "du".

Another damned good reason NOT to have spaces in
filenames, as we discussed a week or two ago here
on the list. :-)

After all, they're filenames, not filesentences ;-)

Bayard

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I fully agree with you Bayard, but as we all know, anyone who has been doing *nix for some time or who was taught correctly, knows not to use spaces in *nix file names. That is what they made the "_" character for. The problem we run into most of the time is that people who have converted over from Windows are so used to using spaces. It is a habit that people will always have to be broke of.

Jeff Kirkland



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