Re: [scottish] Spaces....the final frontier

[Kenny Duffus]

Colin McKinnon wrote:
> 
> This is a little vague.....but am'nt I always?
> 
> Linux, and unices in general have lots of lovely tools for playing with
> files. Unfortunately most of them fall apart when faced with a
> filename/path which has spaces in it.  Has anybody out there addressed this
> problem? Any ideas? tools? code?
> 

Hi

Have you tried quoteing the filename: 

        prompt> command "/random/path/with a space in it"

or escapeing the spaces:

        prompt> command /random/path/with\ a\ space\ in\ it

That should work with almost all commands.
-- 
Kenny Duffus
Department of Computer Science
University of Strathclyde
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