Re: [scottish] Spaces....the final frontier

[Colin McKinnon]

At 15:56 18/07/01 +0100, Kenny Duffus wrote:
>Have you tried quoteing the filename:
>
>         prompt> command "/random/path/with a space in it"

Doesn't work very well if 'command' then passes $1 to another program.

>or escapeing the spaces:
>
>         prompt> command /random/path/with\ a\ space\ in\ it

Seems to work a treat! (thanx also to Lawrence who suggested this)

I'll go and have a wee play around now.

Ta
Colin

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