It's awkward because it often doesn't stop at spaces. It often also involves commas, parenthesis, and similar reserved chars. Christopher Chaltain writes: > How is dealing with file names with blanks in them awkward? I put those file > names in quotes, just like I do in Windows and other operating systems. > Maybe DOS and the old 8.3 file names didn't support spaces in them, but I > would hardly consider this to be an advantage of DOS over Linux. > > On 07/29/2015 12:50 AM, Willem van der Walt wrote: > >Hi, > >You said: > >for example, dealing with filenames > >that contain spaces is awkward. > >One of the best things about unix, is that some one else likely had the > >same problem as what you are having now. > >There is likely a tool written to solve exactly one's problem. > >In the case of spaces in file names as well as other characters that can > >cause problems, the tool is called detox. > >It, for example, changes the & character into the word and. > >People using GUIs invariably create those sentences for file names, > >punctuation and all! > >Regards, Willem > > > > > >On Tue, 28 Jul 2015, Joel Roth wrote: > > > >>Janina Sajka wrote: > >>>I love scripting. It's fun, and it solves problems for me. > >> > >>There is a version of Linux, GoboLinux, with major utilities written > >>as shell scripts. > >> > >>**And** there are some well-known limitations and > >>infelicities in bash, for example, dealing with filenames > >>that contain spaces is awkward. > >> > >>Joel > >> > >>>Janina > >>> > >> > >>-- > >>Joel Roth > >> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Blinux-list mailing list > >>Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >> > >>-- > >>This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, > >>e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. > >>The full disclaimer details can be found at > >>http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. > >> > >>This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by > >>MailScanner, > >>and is believed to be clean. > >> > >>Please consider the environment before printing this email. > >> > >> > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list mailing list > >Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > -- > Christopher (CJ) > chaltain at Gmail > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Email: janina@xxxxxxxxxxx Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list