[Remind-Fans] Filenames with spaces (was Re: RUN bash file hangs remind)

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Fri Feb 25 13:47:27 EST 2011


On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:44:46 -0700
Dave Parker <cedardocster at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have noticed that unix people don't like spaces in filenames - not
> sure why, but I must just be tainted by my previous windows
> experience :-O

Filenames with spaces are annoying to deal with on the command line.
They also (unfortunately) break countless poorly-written shell scripts
and in some cases could even introduce security problems.

Regards,

David.


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