Erik Christiansen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 20.09.13 19:18, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> > Erik Christiansen writes:
> > 
> > > ยน And my software teams were blessed with *nix servers all that time
> > > too, though many members used the other OS on their machines.
> > 
> > VMS?
> 

I hope so, and preferably not a system running that kernel which some VMS
developers later contributed to.
> The couple of curiously emotional posts on this thread, do seem to
> reveal a lack of scripting (and possibly even command line) experience,
> because having to quote "filenames with real space characters in them",
> in order to avoid the CLI barfing, tends to clarify that they are alien.
> The CLI cannot deal with them, and it is only our protective
> work-arounds which allow them to be tunnelled in a script.

That's why I keep such file names off my machines, and I don't bother with the
work-arounds in local scripts because the presence of any file name containing
spaces on any of my machines is a problem to be fixed by appropriate renaming.

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