Re: Problem with spaces embedded in filenames

2004-06-04 Thread Will Senn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Igor, Thanks for letting me know what the problem was. I will say, in my own defense that there are those of us, with a less linear train of thought, who actually appreciate finding associative dissonances in the static of what some like to call the 'We

Re: Problem with spaces embedded in filenames

2004-06-04 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Will Senn wrote: > [snip] > Oh and Igor, is this what you were nagging me about? It just occurred to > me what you meant - won't happen again - I promise :) Will, If you mean "creating a new thread vs. replying to an existing message", then yes, that's exactly it. I wouldn't

Re: Problem with spaces embedded in filenames

2004-06-04 Thread Will Senn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fred, Many thanks for your assistance on this. It worked like a charm. Kinda weird how the output of the sed command produced the correct list, but tar didn't receive the same. I like the new command better anyway, no sense writing | sed -e s/\ / /

RE: Problem with spaces embedded in filenames

2004-06-03 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
I've always had problems getting the correct number of backslashes. Try quotes. For example, change sed to sed -e 's/^.*$/"&"/' to give "path/file" If that doesn't work, try doubling them sed -e 's/^.*$/"&"/' -e "s/^.*$/'&'/" to give '"path/file"' You migh

Re: Problem with spaces embedded in filenames

2004-06-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Will Senn wrote: > Hi, > > I am doing backups with tar on XP. I thought that I could touch a file > when I did a full backup and then use find with newer to only back up > files that are newer than the touched file: > > ~touch /cygdrive/i/backups/full_backup > ~find /cy