shell script question

[Jefferson Kirkland]

At 12:36 PM 1/20/2003 -0500, Bayard R. Coolidge wrote:
>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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I fully agree with you Bayard, but as we all know, anyone who has been 
doing *nix for some time or who was taught correctly, knows not to use 
spaces in *nix file names.  That is what they made the "_" character 
for.  The problem we run into most of the time is that people who have 
converted over from Windows are so used to using spaces.  It is a habit 
that people will always have to be broke of.

Jeff Kirkland