Quoting karen lewellen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > i have some files with spaces in the file names, like this. > my stuff.pdf > now, i cannot do anything because i cannot get pine to see the see the space > between as part of the file name,
>From the shell, you can use spaces in file names by 'escaping' the space (or any of a variety of other special characters -- * and ? for instance) with a backslash. You can also include the entire filename in quotes; so, these two commands are equivalent: $ touch my\ filename\ with\ spaces.txt $ touch "my filename with spaces.txt" $ touch 'my filename with spaces.txt' [There are some differences between the meaning of single and double quotes, but usually you don't need to worry about them -- if in doubt, use the single quotes, since that escapes _everything_, including $VARIABLES.] You ought to be able to use one or more of these with pine; if you're passing a filename in on the command line, any of them will work. From within pine itself, I'm not sure; give them each a shot and see what happens. -- Regards, Ben A L Jemmett. (http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/) ---------------------------------------------- This mail sent through http://www.ukonline.net To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
