On 17/07/14 21:51, Brett Pemberton wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Daniel Jitnah > <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I'd have the same response to someone using _ instead of a space. >>> Why bother? >> May be because: >> >> danyj@git-deb7-64:~/test$ touch windows >> danyj@git-deb7-64:~/test$ touch 7 >> danyj@git-deb7-64:~/test$ touch windows\ 7 >> danyj@git-deb7-64:~/test$ ls -l >> total 0 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 danyj danyj 0 Jul 17 21:23 7 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 danyj danyj 0 Jul 17 21:23 windows >> -rw-r--r-- 1 danyj danyj 0 Jul 17 21:23 windows 7 >> danyj@git-deb7-64:~/test$ rm -rf windows 7 >> danyj@git-deb7-64:~/test$ ls -l >> total 0 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 danyj danyj 0 Jul 17 21:23 windows 7 >> danyj@git-deb7-64:~/test$ >> > Sorry, I'm honestly at a loss as to what you were demonstrating there. > Let's do the same thing, but with underscores. > > brett@capsid:/tmp/space$ touch windows > brett@capsid:/tmp/space$ touch 7 > brett@capsid:/tmp/space$ touch windows_7 > brett@capsid:/tmp/space$ ls -l > total 0 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 brett brett 0 Jul 17 21:50 7 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 brett brett 0 Jul 17 21:50 windows > -rw-rw-r-- 1 brett brett 0 Jul 17 21:50 windows_7 > brett@capsid:/tmp/space$ rm -rf windows 7 > brett@capsid:/tmp/space$ ls -l > total 0 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 brett brett 0 Jul 17 21:50 windows_7 > brett@capsid:/tmp/space$ > > In both cases, it did exactly what we asked it to. > Spaces had absolutely no bearing on anything. > >
Yes, it did do exactly what was asked - but not exactly what was intended (to retain "windows" and "7" whilst removing the other). Crispy. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
