I'll give that another go... I tried both these approaches when originally testing, but it didn't have any affect. Is there anything else I might be able to try?
-Shannon Murdoch On 1/11/02 3:44 AM, in article p05200e09b9e70dcab48d@[206.124.22.67], "Charles Albrecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 2:57 AM +1100 11/1/2002, Shannon Murdoch wrote: >> When specifying a directory to glob in MacOS X it malfunctions if the path >> contains a space ie. /Users/sydneyshan/University of Newcastle/* >> >> Is there any way around this without needing to replace the directory's >> spaces with underscores etc? > > The standard ways are either quoting the entire string or escaping the spaces: > > '/Users/sydneyshan/University of Newcastle/*' > /Users/sydneyshan/University\ of\ Newcastle/* > > When dragging from the Finder to Terminal, OS X uses the second approach. > > -Charles > Euonymic Solutions > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
