On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Dos-Man 64 <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, I thought I read somewhere that either Unix or Linux files > can't have spaces in the names, but it's one of those things where you > can't remember what you read or where you read it.
Files definitely can have spaces and other characters: $ touch foo bar foo\ bar foo$'\n'bar foo$'\t'bar \ foo$'\b'bar f...@bar foo:bar foo*bar $ ls -1 --show-control-chars bar foo foo bar foo:bar f...@bar foo*bar fobar foo bar foo bar $ ls -1b bar foo foo\ bar foo:bar f...@bar foo*bar foo\bbar foo\tbar foo\nbar A common topic on linux forums tends to be how to delete or rename files with these special characters. Regards, - Robert -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
