Well...when I attempt to navigate to a dir in a terminal window that has
spaces in the name I'm told that "no such file or directory" exists and
if I try to do a chmod, or chown or any type of attribute change on a file
or dir with a space in the name, then this too fails. I don't think spaces
"are" legal forms of naming. Otherwise wouldn't the OS allow this?
I've never known any type *nix to allow this before.
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Mark
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On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 Sridhar Dhanapalan spake passionately saying!
> Spaces are not illegal at all - you can use them as you wish. I personally
> like to use spaces in file and directory names in order to keep my stuff
> organised. Most programmes support this, but there are a few that I've
> encountered that don't. I don't think it's a good idea to use spaces outside
> your home directories, unless you're sure this won't create any problems.
>
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:08, Mark's mail wrote:
> > Wait...I thought spaces "were/are" illegal in *nix?
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 20:25:28 +0100 (CET), Paul said:
> > > On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, John Rye wrote:
> > > >I would have thought that a space was an undesirable if not illegal
> > > >character in a filename let alone a directory name.
> > > >
> > > >Is this not the case?
> > >
> > > If it were illegal, I think that someone would have made a program
> > > alteration that would prevent you from putting a space in a directory
> > > name. I agree though, that it is undesirable.
> > >
> > > Paul
> > >
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