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From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: "ls" finds file1 but "ls file1" does not
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 18:07:25 -0500
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of Ross Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 4:33 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: "ls" finds file1 but "ls file1" does not
> 
> Charles D. Russell wrote:
> > Eric Blake wrote:
> > 
> >>  mv -v "$f" " ` echo $f | tr A-Z a-z ` "
> > 
> > EVIL - you are moving "FOO" to " foo " (Windows strips trailing 
> > spaces, but not leading spaces, so it is really moving to " foo").  
> > YOU ARE ADDING SPACES to the filename.  Fix your script so 
> that there 
> > are no spaces between "` and `".
> > _____________
> > 
> > Thought it was clever of me to make that little ` visible 
> to my old eyes.
> 
> I always use $(...) instead; it's equivalent to `...` and 
> much easier to read.
> 

... And suffers from far fewer nesting problems.

-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle


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