Re: Filename with whitespace

[Noel Yap]

IME, it's much, much easier to rename the files such that they don't have 
special characters like space.

Noel

Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:

> >         Because space is a hard delimiter in the code.
> >
> > 	A workaround I use is to define a variable like so (But this does not always 
> > work)
> >
> >         spc=$(x) $(x)
>
>
> Thanks for the note...but I think you misread my posting.  I already 
> pointed out that this:
>
>   filename=two\ words
>
> works just fine.  There's no need to resort to a $(spc) variable when a 
> simple backslash escape will work.  However, the problem for which I am 
> not aware of a solution is when you have files with names like:
>
>   file one
>   file two
>
> And you want to perform wildcard expansion to get a list of these files:
>
>   files=$(wildcard file*)
>
> This won't work.
>
> -- Lars
>
>
>
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