On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, James Frye wrote:
> Guess we must have learned *nix from different sources, then. IIRC - it
> has been a couple of decades - not using characters such as <, >, &, or
> space was one of the basic "Intro to Unix" things.
Well... I wouldn't recommend it in an introduction ;-)
And it is a good guideline to avoid special characters in general.
Actually, when I first encountered Unix it was a sport to create files
with complicated names that where b&!--y difficult to erase... maybe
that's where my "bad" habit is from?
> But why do you want to make things difficult?
A recent reason are my electronic books (reading on a laptop works
surprisingly well). I store the books in a directory tree like this:
localhost:books>tree -d
.
|-- L. Bujold
| `-- Diplomatic immunity
|-- W. Simmons
| `-- Dead on my feet
|-- J. L. Chalker
| `-- Mechior's Fire
...
where of course a `'` is just as easy to create as a space, i.e.
mkdir Melchior\'s\ Fire
And since we already are off-topic, I can recommend Baen's free library
http://www.baen.com/library
Cheers
/Christian
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
