On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 17:54 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:18:15 +0100 > Ian Malone wrote: > > > Yes, in general hours of pain here, especially if you work with people > > who do lots of shell scripting and another group of people who use > > Windows lots. > > Yea, did anyone notice that Unix/Linux allowed spaces in filenames > for years and years before Microsoft invented NTFS, and no one had > these problems because no one was foolish enough to actually use > spaces in filenames. Not only space of course, but lots of wierd stuff. The only character that can't appear in a filename component is '/'. Everything else is legal, LineFeed, Tab, Del, Ctrl-C, you name it :-) Returning to the Shell quote thing, in idle moments I sometimes wonder why the Shells don't simply *assume* double quotes around every parameter. No doubt it would break lots of things now, but it might have been a better design to begin with. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
