On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:25 PM, schmmd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Sage has poor support for filenames that contain a space. For
> example, if you type `mkdir a\ e', which will create a directory named
> "a e" in bash, SAGE provides the not-so-friendly error:
As a workaround you might want to put an ! at the beginning of all lines that
will be sent to the shell. E.g.,
sage: mkdir a\ e
-- William
>
> sage: mkdir a\ e
> sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> sh: -c: line 0: `LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$SAGE_ORIG_LD_LIBRARY_PATH;mkdir
> a._backslash_( e)'
>
> You must type `mkdir "a e"'. This is even more confusing with cd. If
> you have a directory named "banana float" and then type `cd banana'
> and hit tab, sage will complete the command as follows:
>
> sage: cd banana
> sage: cd banana\ float
>
> However, this command will once again only produce whine:
>
> sage: cd banana\ float
> [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'banana._backslash_( float)'
> /home/michael
>
> You may type `cd banana float' or `cd "banana float"', even though
> this is not what sage's autocompletion suggests. There are also
> errors when cd-ing to a directory that contains a number in its name.
>
> sage: cd sage-3.0/
> [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'sage-RealNumber(3.0)/'
> /opt
>
> Sage will, however, still autocomplete without quotes.
>
> >
>
--
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org
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