Re: How to handle whitespace in filenames ???

[Craig Dickson <crdic@yahoo.com>]

Dimitri Maziuk wrote:

> Wrong. There's a reason why people with half a clue don't put 
> spaces in paths, and inadequacy of tools is not it. Unless your 
> computer can read minds, it has no way of telling when the
> whitespace's supposed to be input separator, and when it's just 
> a part of filename. 

Oh, come on. Unix shells already have rules for that. You escape the
space, or put the full name in quotes. The problem is that many Unix
tools don't correctly handle filenames with spaces.

Craig