On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 09:58, Ian Wienand wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:52:04AM +1000, Stuart Guthrie wrote: > > Bug or feature: > > I'm wondering why the standard basename and dirname commands in gnu do > > not handle spaces in file names and paths. > > They do : > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ianw]$ basename "/this is/a path/with / spaces" > spaces > > are you quoting correctly? >
or: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dementis]$ basename this\ is/a\ path/with\ spaces/ with spaces John... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
