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Re: How to deal with space in command line?
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Marc Herbert |
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Re: How to deal with space in command line? |
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Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:30:52 +0100 |
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Le 20/09/2010 14:14, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> In the original design of the Unix shell, in many ways and places,
> it's quite apparent that the designers never really intended to handle
> filenames that contain whitespace.
... while at the same time allowing almost any character to be part of
a filename. The irony.
"UNIX is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are."