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what about
cd Application\ support
that way you escape the space, similar on all *NIX'es
Cheers
/Lasse
On Tuesday, February 26, 2002, at 09:30 am, David Thorp wrote:
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>>> Does anyone know a good way to merge all these files?
>>
>> cat * >> out.txt
>
> Hmmm great idea! I actually wrote a filemaker script that imports all
> the
> files in a folder into the filemaker file, but that is just as good -
> better
> actually, because filemaker doesn't recognise the ".session" extension
> as a
> text file. I was working on an applescript that would copy all the
> files
> and rename them, but this cat statement is a much better solution!
>
> However... while we're on this... can anyone tell me how to:
>
> "cd application support"
>
> that line doesn't work - the space between "application" and "support"
> cause
> the terminal to respond with:
>
> cd: too many arguments.
>
> Of course, that's always been a unix thing - spaces separate the
> arguments,
> so a file name with a space is going to really mess things up.
>
> I can get around it by renaming the application support folder removing
> the
> space, but that's not ideal, especially since the application support
> folder
> is a special one required in the system.
>
> I'm wondering if Apple thought of this when they allowed spaces in the
> file
> names of a unix based operating system - especially when some of the
> file
> names are set by them - and provided us with a way around it?
>
> any ideas anyone?
>
> Cheers,
> David.
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