Spaces in filenames (was: shell script question)

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, at 12:36pm, bayard at tds.net wrote:
>> 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 ...

  Funny, I thought it was a damned good reason to write shell scripts
correctly.

  Computers are a tool to be used by humans, not the other way around.  
People who forget that are doomed to fail, in time.

  :-)

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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