On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 09:07 -0300, John Rowland Lenton wrote: > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 06:19:58AM -0400, Carsten Agger wrote: > > > > Spaces in Folder names are a major annoyance when using the command line, > > yes, slightly (but as pointed out, that doesn't necessarily mean it's bad) >
I still think they should be avoided, since > > and they also break globbing and thus break or complicate a large number > > of shell scripts. > > how does it break globbing? Good question! If you want to do something with all files or directories somewhere, you can do something like this in bash: $ for FILE in `ls -a` ... However, if a file name contains spaces, it is parsed as two strings, ie as two file names: ---------------------------- ag...@lakshmi:~$ ls | grep Ubu Ubuntu One ag...@lakshmi:~$ for file in `ls | grep Ubu`; do echo $file; done Ubuntu One ---------------------------- This breaks a LOT of shell scripts. It's possible to code around this, of course, but I don't think the system should use such names by default. br Carsten _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuone-users Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuone-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
