On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 08:49:47 +1300
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 08:11:18 +1300
> rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 

> 
> try quoting - eg
> 
> mv "Fred Bloggs.htm" fredbloggs.html
> 
> changes the name.
> 
> 
> or whats called "escaping"
> 
> mv Fred\ Bloggs.htm fredbloggs.html
> 
> the backslash character \ tells the shell that the next character is taken 
> literally, not as the command line delimiter.
> 
> 
> > 
> > Luckily, the fact that Linux differentiates between upper and lower case
> > filenames I was able to recopy the files over doing "mv" with a rename
> > as the final argument to "fredbloggs.html" and get the file in place, in
> > a useful naming format. This then loaded correctly as a web page from a
> > LAN machine. Any tips on how to get rid of the rogue files would be
> > appreciated.
> > 
> > The installation worked great on some very primitive hardware and I have
> > attached the details for anyone who may be interested. It may be of
> > interest to another newbie considering a similar project.

sorry to make it clear if you want to remove them:

rm "Fred Bloggs.htm"
or
rm Fred\ Bloggs.htm"



> > 
> > Woodsey
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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