Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

[Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.productions@gmail.com>]

On 25/06/11 08:05, David Jardine wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 01:34:54AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>>
>> [...] 
>>
>> I don't think the "no white spaces" and "no accented characters" "rule"
>> is valid in the 21st century. But if some one can put up an
>> authoritative, and recent, reason I'll reconsider.
>>
> 
> You won't get anything authoritative from me, but I have noticed traps 
> for the unwary, for example:
> 
>    $ mkdir newdir; cd newdir
>    $ touch 'one space' 'and two spaces'
>    $ for jim in *; do echo $jim; done
>    and two spaces
>    one space
> 
> So far, so good, but:
> 
>    $ for jim in `ls`; do echo $jim; done
>    and
>    two
>    spaces
>    one
>    space
> 
> which is not what was intended.
> 
> Cheers,
> David
> 
> 

man bash /IFS ???


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