Meph Istopheles wrote:
John,
Whoa! Talk about obsessive;-).
But dude, isn't life just a little dull explicitly playing by
the rules? I honestly don't know how many, but I've had (in RH
6.0 likely ~will~ have in mdk 7.2 after installing this
weekend) numerous files with
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:
Are you kidding? Try
mkdir "directory with spaces"
ls
rm -r "directory with spaces"
but directory.with.spaces is easier, right? ;-}
I would have
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
Hey Mark ( John, I guess),
I won't claim to know as much about Linux as Civileme, but I've
picked up some things in the past year a half on RH 6.0. To
open a file like: This File in, say pico, do this:
$ pico "This File"
You just need to add the quotes to any file or directory with
Mark Weaver wrote:
Ok...since you've said I will believe it. But then how does one navigate
to these dir's that have spaced names, or how would one open such a file
from a command line? Every time I've ever tried this, with the exception
of doing it with Wine (and even then most times it
Ok...since you've said I will believe it. But then how does one navigate
to these dir's that have spaced names, or how would one open such a file
from a command line? Every time I've ever tried this, with the exception
of doing it with Wine (and even then most times it fails), I get a message
Alternatively, assuming you have a directory called "mydir for myprogram"
you could do things like "cd mydir*myprogram" and "chown myname:mygroup
mydir*myprogram".
The only time I run into this is with guys at work who use Windows
programs to create mp3s and don't choose the option in the
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From: Holly Henry-Pilkington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 13 December 2000 16:18
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Spaces in names
Alternatively, assuming you have a directory called "mydir for myprogram"
you could do things like "cd mydir*myprogr
hey Mark, someone will probably get to this reply before me,
but i think it's as simple as
command "file or directory with spaces"
and i believe this works with many / most of the linux commands.
i have had some problems with gui programs and spaces in file names
and i am gradually converting
Adrian,
So what you're saying is to enclose the file or dir name in double quotes?
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Mark
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On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 Adrian Smith spake passionately
opsysii?
bascule
I've been around opsys's/opsyses (oh Hell what is the plural??) of
exactly. this is what i have read.
i have only used it a few times myself, such as
cd "all of my writing"
to change to my directory called 'all of my writing'
as i mentioned, i'm renaming my directories so it's easier to navagate,
but as to file names... not really. to many of those.
so i
John,
Whoa! Talk about obsessive;-).
But dude, isn't life just a little dull explicitly playing by
the rules? I honestly don't know how many, but I've had (in RH
6.0 likely ~will~ have in mdk 7.2 after installing this
weekend) numerous files with spaces, exceeding 14 characters,
even
Mark Weaver wrote:
Ok...since you've said I will believe it. But then how does one navigate
to these dir's that have spaced names, or how would one open such a file
from a command line? Every time I've ever tried this, with the exception
of doing it with Wine (and even then most times it
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Adrian Smith
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 9:33 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Spaces in names
exactly. this is what i have read.
i have only used it a few times myself, such as
cd "all of my wr
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
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
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
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