In message <http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=124437062404877&w=1>,
Pau <vim.unix () googlemail ! com> asked
> who (besides you) is as intelligent as to create files with blank
> spaces in the name?
Many people from the Windows and Mac worlds use the space character
as a word separator in filenames. This leads to filenames like
'Tobias Poster.pdf'
'YB2-Sections 1-9.doc'
'Miller 2004.pdf'
'Stearns--advice to tgrad students.pdf'
'TRAIN1/train1 267.jpg'
etc. (These are actual filenames from the USB stick I carry in my
pocket. I often use this USB stick to exchange files with Windows/Mac
users. Indeed, find|grep|wc reveals that of the 593 files on this
USB stick, 473 have at least one blank in their filename. Hmm, it
seems the whole batch of photos my wife downloaded from the camera
during our last vacation have blanks in their filenames...)
ciao,
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