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

[Colin McKinnon]

At 16:09 18/07/01 +0100, Colin McKinnon wrote:
>I'll go and have a wee play around now.

Am I doing something stoopid again?:

[root@lonmay /root]# ls -l *.doc
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root       123392 Jul 18 17:02 TEST FILE.doc
[root@lonmay /root]# msword_vd TEST\ FILE.doc
[root@lonmay /root]# # - that is whats supposed to happen
[root@lonmay /root]# SAFENAME="TEST\ FILE.doc"
[root@lonmay /root]# echo $SAFENAME
TEST\ FILE.doc
[root@lonmay /root]# msword_vd $SAFENAME
msword_vd: No such file or directory
[root@lonmay /root]# msword_vd "$SAFENAME"
word_vd: No such file or directory

Colin

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