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Re: is it correct to specific a path name like this



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On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 01:22:00AM -0400, try_email_me@yahoo.ca wrote:
> $PDB=~/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Cool Joe/AddressDB.pdb
> $PDB="~/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Cool Joe/AddressDB.pdb"
> $PDB='~/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Cool Joe/AddressDB.pdb'

$PDB=~/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Cool\ Joe/AddressDB.pdb

Any time you are having difficulties with one character getting in the
way, escape it by preceeding it with a \.  If you actually need a \,
then you'd type \\.

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