Erik Christiansen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04.06.13 23:45, Craig Sanders wrote: > > spaces in filenames, OTOH, are quite common. especially if you have to > > deal with files uploaded by Mac or Windows users.
I don't have to deal with those, fortunately. Anything that arrives in e-mail attachments gets renamed anyway in most cases to make it easier to find later. > > Although it's mostly xpdf which won't handle spaces in filenames, > I'm finding a simple alias useful for the few arriving here: > > alias unspace="/usr/bin/rename 's/ /_/g' " That's useful, thanks. I'll save it for when the problem arises. > Oh for the halcyon days when we could just tell users that spaces > weren't allowed. Agreed. On my machines, though, I'm the only user and I'm not responsible for other peoples' systems, so it's easy to enforce that kind of requirement here. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
