Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 3/1/11 3:42 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
There's a long, seemingly-unending history of unix programs choking on
paths
with spaces in them *even* when you give them the paths properly escaped.
Not all unix apps, but enough.
make and latex are prime examples. I have made an executive decision to
never even attempt to use spaces with these programs.
Similarly, never use / as a path separator in Windows. Sure, it works sometimes.
But it often fails in random ways, even with Windows system programs. For
example, / doesn't work with the COPY command.
I've always hated the Windows "Documents and Settings" subdirectory. Arggh.
Always a pain to use on the command line.
