On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Chuck Hast wrote:
> I get a lot of files that have spaces in the name, on the company e-mail
> system.
> When I try to open them (with Firefox)
What are you using to open them? That's what needs to be reconfigured so
it quotes the filename, i.e. change
firefox %1
to
firefox "%1"
(or whatever)
> I know of course that *nix OS in general do not like spaces in the file names
> unless you quote the file name first.
*nix doesn't care one way or the other. Your filemanager or shell might
care.
> as a example I got some .jpg files with spaces in the names, I had to save
> the files and then go in and look at them after re-naming them to get rid
> of the spaces.
rename \ _ *\ *
repeat for any other "special" characters.
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