On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 8:19 PM, Erik Christiansen
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 17.07.14 19:58, Brett Pemberton wrote:
>> I'd have the same response to someone using _ instead of a space.
>> Why bother?
>
> Err ... are you completely unaware of how the unix commandline works?
>
> What do you think separates commandline arguments?
>
> Is this still the thread on which:
>
> $ rm windows 7
>
> failed, because the paths "windows" and "7" were not present?
> (I've been on several other lists since my last post, so it's possible
> that my recollection is faulty.)
>
Of course it did, and the solutions already posted included:
rm "windows 7"
rm windows\ 7
Perfectly valid ways to deal with the POSIX-OK space in the filename.
I'm suggesting that this is fine.
As compared to the other suggestions that the file should never have
been named that, and should have been windows_7 instead.
/ Brett
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