I can probably blame it on the Joe editor, which leaves trailing spaces on lines in files too. I wrote a program once to strip them off, probably doesn't bother anybody else. When you save a file it prompts with a (previous) filename with the cursor at the end, bumping the spacebar then would do it, I've hit other characters by accident and had those end up in filenames. I've been using Joe for ~20 years.
But a trailing space on a filename, after the extension, is pointless to keep. Probably featureitis to build in looking for them though. On 10/22/16, Alan Corey <alan01...@gmail.com> wrote: > Bingo, a trailing space. I would have thought that would get trimmed > off somehow. I don't normally put spaces in filenames, I must have > fat-fingered something. But I see no reason to keep trailing spaces. > > -rw-r--r-- 1 alan wheel 25549 Oct 22 10:55 pi.c\$ > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 25152 Oct 22 00:07 pi.c \$
