Stuart Guthrie wrote:
>
> Bug or feature:
> I'm wondering why the standard basename and dirname commands in gnu do
> not handle spaces in file names and paths. I guess there is a good
> reason why we need to code around it - ie it would break lots of other
> stuff to fix it.
You must be new
easiest is somecommand "file name with spaces" -someoption
Far easier than having to decided which of the following is correct
mv thisfile there
mv thisfile there
mv thisfile there
mv thisfile there
mv thisfile there
......
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