On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 03:18:04PM -0700, boblq wrote: > On Saturday 23 April 2005 02:36 pm, David J. Looney wrote: > > On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:47:33 -0700 > > boblq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Works here if I make a dir testdir and > > > > ln -s testdir "April 21 Bench Test CATS handoff" > > > > if I just > > > > rm "April 21 Bench Test CATS handoff" > > > > Some of the "quotes" below are accent grave rather than single > > quotes, BTW. > > > > Dave Looney > > Looks like the double quotes works. In some cases backslashing the > space takes care of the issue but for some reason here it does not. > > O well, > Onward, > > boblq >
FWIW I always use rm and then tab completion. At the appropriate moment, it automagically quotes it. This is where I consign space users in directory/file names to the 8th circle of hell, and some of our professionally contentious members jump in to defend this STUPID and MICRO$SOFTIAN practice. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
