It was thus said that the Great Boyle Owen once stated: > > In Unix, you never need to quote the path because the path can't contain > spaces. Actually, they can (for as long as I've been using Unix, and that's been since 1989). The only two characters you *can't* use at all are the '/' (which is used to separate directories) and the NUL character (binary pattern of all zeros---which is used to mark the end of a string in C, which is what Unix is implemented in). And there may be further restrictions depending upon the filesystem type that the file is stored on (for instatance, MS-DOS filenames can't start with the character who's binary pattern is 11100101). -spc (Now using a filename with spaces is ... interesting ... at the shell level ...) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|