Re: Quoted file names matching a pattern?

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Angel Tsankov" <address@hidden> writes:

  at> $(wildcard *.cpp) returns a list of all files that have th .cpp
  at> suffix. One or more of these files may contain a space in the
  at> name, which makes the list not very useful. Is it possible to get
  at> a list of quoted files names that match a pattern?

Quoted filenames won't help because make doesn't do quotes.

Basically, it is very, very difficult, even impossible, to handle
filenames containing whitespace using make.

You should avoid such files.

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