At 06:40p -0500 03/12/2005, Thomas Dickey didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus:

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:

Going back to Unix <g>, what if there are spaces in the application pathname?
Do they get encoded/escaped? If so, what method is used?

Lynx attempts to quote tokens when building a shell command. The given example would be a problem since lynx cannot tell if

        /program files/bin/foo

is intended to be two tokens or one.

So, um, what is the answer? How to reference an app name containing spaces?



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