RE: [SLUG] File names with spaces irritant

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Wed Dec 29 2004 - 17:33:51 EST


On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Steven Buehler wrote:

> 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) it only sees the first
> > characters prior to the space and then only gives me the option to save
> > to disk.

> 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.

While that works in a CLI, I believe he's trying to open them from a GUI.

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