spaces in pathnames

Roland Mainz roland.mainz at nrubsig.org
Sun Jun 29 20:04:57 PDT 2008


Russell Whitaker wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> > On Jun 29, 2008, at 19:18, Roland Mainz wrote:
[snip]
> I think spaces in path names is a BAD idea.
> Breaks too many things in the command line environment.

This shouldn't be a problem anymore for any modern shell (e.g. "bash" >=
3.0, "dash", "ksh93", "zsh" ...) - you simply turn-off field splitting
via IFS='' at the beginning of the script and you're done.

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Bye,
Roland

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