> Several folks have already suggested, that you just need to get rid of > the '' quotes. However, if some files have spaces in their file name, > you actually do need quotes, like this. > > for i in *; do ln -s "$i" "/home/newdir/$i"; done > > This makes sure that the filename $i and the new location > /home/newdir/$i is exactly one arguement each to the ln command and not > split on word boundaries. > > Of course, some people argue, that spaces in filenames is a Bad > Thing(tm), but I fail to see why.
Could exactly this be the reason, why spaces in filenames are considered as a bad thing, since they easily lead into trouble? Martin
