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Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:18:42 -0600
From: "Charles D. Russell" <worwor AT bellsouth DOT net>
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Subject: Re: stupid spaces in environment vars
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Charles Russell wrote:

OK from the system prompt, but I've never found a way to quote this in a 
shell script.  So I make symlinks to $HOME/my/docs/, my/pics/, my/mus to 
avoid those infernal microsoft spaces.
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Pardon the idiocy.  But the symlinks do simplify things.

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