On Dec 20 12:50, incog wrote: > On 2015-12-20 12:41, Sam Edge wrote: > >On 18/12/2015 13:06, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > >>and (of all things!) contain blanks, > > > >* rant mode on * > > > >What's wrong with blanks? > > > >The OS calls don't give a monkey's chuff so long as they're given > >null-terminated C-strings. Tools like find, xargs etc. have options to > >cope. > > > >The biggest problem is that there are a lot of sloppily written shell > >scripts out there that don't properly quote substitutions or that use $* > >instead of "$@" or that use command substitution where they should be > >using pipes and "xargs" and "read". That's the fault of the scripts, not > >the OS/emulation layer. > > > >* rant mode off * > > Oh ... you know, I understand Rainer's sentiment ... > > https://www.cygwin.com/ starts with: > > CYGWIN > > Get that ___Linux___ feeling - on Windows
Dunno about you, but I have lots of files with spaces in them on Linux, especially files connected with GUI stuff, themes, etc. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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