> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/handling-filenames-with-spaces-in-bash.html > Most of the ideas there are ones that got mentioned here, but there is a > new one. You know, Unix allowed spaces in filenames since before time fell upon the face of the earth (I got that from a documentary on Beavers I watched once on TV :-), but everyone was bright enough to realize what an incredible pain they were, and just didn't use them. Then Billy Boy had to go and make a big deal about finally supporting filenames with spaces in them (Hey everybody, look at me! I can make spaces in my filenames! I'll put spaces in every critical path the system uses! Aren't I just so smart? :-). Now everyone is catching the endless grief that caused (including Microsoft - I remember many system APIs in the Microsoft documentation that claimed the argument was a filename, then they had to go back and correct all of them because it wasn't really interpreted as a filename, but needed to be quoted to properly handle names with space). I think linux needs to change /etc/ to /Et Cetera/ to keep up with Microsoft :-). -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
