I will use tab-completion when I deal with "spaced" file names, typing in
the first few to several letters and then hit the 'tab' to get the rest of
the file name, which the shell properly escapes the spaces.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Chuck Hast
> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 9:15 AM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: [SLUG] File names with spaces irritant
>
> Folks,
> 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) it only sees the first
> characters prior to the
> space and then only gives me the option to save to disk.
>
> I know of course that *nix OS in general do not like spaces in the file
> names
> unless you quote the file name first.
>
> Is this just something that I have to put up with or is there
> something I need to
> change somewhere in order to be able to get it to see the whole file, 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.
>
>
> --
> Chuck Hast
> To paraphrase my flight instructor;
> "the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
> out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
> and twisted metal."
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