At 16:36 -0400 24-04-02, Erik Price wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 24, 2002, at 03:37 PM, Sverre Johan T�vik wrote:
>
>> I've thought about it, but I've decied to take the "No dammit,
>> this is a Mac!" stance. ;-)
>
> But that's just the thing -- not only is it not a Mac anymore
> (c'mon admit it), you're not even trying to do traditional Mac
> things with it -- you're trying to use ported Unix software.
Yeah, I know. But the thing is, this isn't really a *nix limitation -
it's a "limitation" of script writers (no offense :).
I sometimes used spaces in file names when I first started using
*nix. Why? Because I wanted to. Me master, computer slave.
> I believe Apple has done a good job of filling in some holes, like
> the Finder for instance, but there comes a point where you need to
> start treating Mac OS X (especially when accessing Darwin thru
> Terminal or Xterm) like a Unix operating system.
See above point.
> If you insist, I wish you luck, but you're asking for a lot of
> headaches. Perhaps you can come up with some kind of script* that
> runs in the background and intercepts certain commands and then
> escapes the spaces or quotes them or whatever. Fundamentally, this
> is what the Finder does.
I don't actually thrust myself enough to try doing that - I'd rather
just go through the scripts that needs going through. I also have a
feeling this could be very bad... Say if I did this to a command that
can accept multiples files as arguments. Though I guess I could work
around that by checking all combinations of the "words" passed as
arguments (that is, if the combination exists in the file system).
BTW; Can anyone tell me why [whatever] insists on expanding the "/sw"
symlink? I use the same setup for /usr/local, and mysql installed
without a hitch (into /usr/local/mysql)...
Sverre
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