On 2001.07.18 18:40:21 +0100 Lawrence Sweeney wrote:
> On 2001.07.18 17:14 Colin McKinnon wrote:
> > 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
>
> You're overegging the pudding here
>
> either
> SAFENAME="TEST FILE.doc"
> or
> SAFENAME=TEST\ FILE.doc
> would do
>
>
> both of these, in ascii, roughly equate to
> TEST SPACE FILE
> yours equates to
> TEST BACKSLASH SPACE FILE
>
> use one methor OR other, not both. :-)
>
Using
ls
will then list it as
TEST FILE.doc
ls -b
lists
TEST\ FILE.doc
--
Gavin McCord
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