Recently I found myself in the position of having to copy material from a cd using the command "cp".
The material being copied from the cd was burned to the cd using Nautilus's CD/DVD Creator. The default name given to the cd was: "Personal Data, Feb 13, 2007". Note the spaces in the name. When I issued the command: cp /media/Personal Data, Feb 13, 2007/* /[destination] I had the following output: cp: cannot stat `/media/Personal': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `Data,': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `Feb': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `13,': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `2007/*': No such file or directory It seems that the cp command interpreted the spaces as indicating seperate files in the media directory rather than the file name of the cd. Not really sure if this is a bug on the part of the command "cp" or just bad programming on the part of the Nautilus CD/DVD Creator developers in having a default naming convention for discs that includes spaces in the name. Either way I though it best to report the situation to you as well as them. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. http://games.yahoo.com/games/front _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
