shell script question

Bayard R. Coolidge bayard at tds.net
Mon Jan 20 12:36:38 EST 2003


bscott at ntisys.com said:

 >>> Otherwise, if one of your directories contained
 >>>spaces or other shell meta-characters, it would
 >>> get mangled by the shell
 >>>before it got passed to "du".

Another damned good reason NOT to have spaces in
filenames, as we discussed a week or two ago here
on the list. :-)

After all, they're filenames, not filesentences ;-)

Bayard




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