Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 09:55:34 -0300 (GMT-0300)
From: Roberto Alsina <ralsina AT ultra7 DOT unl DOT edu DOT ar>
To: yeep <yeep AT xs4all DOT nl>
cc: OpenDOS Mailing List <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: BIG suggestion for Opendos Features
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On Thu, 8 May 1997, yeep wrote:

> > > If you don't want spaces, don't use them.
> > > You can use spaces on EXT2, but I've never seen anybody do it.
> > > Well aside from myself then, but I quit doing it, 'cos it sucked big
> time.
> > 
> > How do you do spaces in filenames in Linux? How does bash reacts to this?
> > And the fileutils (like ls)? Anyway, quoting a filename is losing IMHO,
> so
> > spaces should be out... ;-)
> 
> I use spaces in Win95/NT, but not in Linux.
> If you do however, you must use quotation marks.
> example: "This is a spaced filename".
> Linux shows this as This\is\a\spaced\filename, or something.
> That doesn't make it any clearer, so spaces in filenames on EXT2 is
> useless.

Uh?

$ uname -a
Linux ultra7 2.0.25 #18 Mon Nov 25 13:54:24 GMT-0300 1996 i586
$ touch "This is a spaced filename"
$ ls -l T*

total 1
-rw-r--r--   1 ralsina  users           0 May  8 09:31 This is a spaced filename

$ ls -l "This is a spaced filename" 
(actually I just typed the T and pressed Tab, the shell put the "s and all)

-rw-r--r--   1 ralsina  users           0 May  8 09:31 This is a spaced filename

It looks ok to me. Not a single \ here! :-)

You *can* also do 
$ ls -l This\ is\ a\ spaced\ filename 

-rw-r--r--   1 ralsina  users           0 May  8 09:31 This is a spaced filename

But it's not like it's forcing you :-).

> 
> 	Yeep
> 

Regards

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