> > mv Fred\ Bloggs.htm fredbloggs.html
> >
> > the backslash character \ tells the shell that the next character is taken
> > literally, not as the command line delimiter.
> >
> That worked - thanks Nick
It's worth noting that if you don't know which characters need to be
escaped in a long filen
> try quoting - eg
>
> mv "Fred Bloggs.htm" fredbloggs.html
Couldn't get that to work ""Fred Bloggs.htm" no such file or directory"
> mv Fred\ Bloggs.htm fredbloggs.html
>
> the backslash character \ tells the shell that the next character is taken
> literally, not as the command line delimite
On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 08:49:47 +1300
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 08:11:18 +1300
> rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> try quoting - eg
>
> mv "Fred Bloggs.htm" fredbloggs.html
>
> changes the name.
>
>
> or whats called "escaping"
>
> mv Fred\ Bloggs.htm f
On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 08:11:18 +1300
rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings
> Sorry to have been so quiet recently, I know my off topic ramblings will
> have been missed. :-)
>
> Just to finalise on an old thread here, I had so much hassle trying to
> configure my server with Win2K + Apache 2,
Greetings
Sorry to have been so quiet recently, I know my off topic ramblings will
have been missed. :-)
Just to finalise on an old thread here, I had so much hassle trying to
configure my server with Win2K + Apache 2, I decided to go for the
debian testing release, text only, plus Apache 2, follo
