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The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> writes:

> On 4/29/26 22:51, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:38:28 -0700, The Real Bev wrote:
>> 
>>> BUT linux (or maybe just MY version of it) is snotty about
>>> whitespace 
>>   (and some other characters) in filenames and god knows
>>> what else and 
>>   insists that they be backslashed: (john\ jones). A
>>> monumental nuisance.
>>      ldo@theon:~> touch 'john jones.txt'
>>      ldo@theon:~> ls -l j*
>>      -rw-r--r-- 1 ldo users 0 Apr 30 17:50 'john jones.txt'
>
>
> touch john jones.txt
> -rw-r--r--   1 root 0 Apr 29 23:29 john
> -rw-r--r--   1 root 0 Apr 29 23:29 jones.txt
>
> touch 'john jones.txt'
> -rw-r--r--   1 root 0 Apr 29 23:31 john\ jones.txt
>
> Takes all kinds.

You aren't going to have an end-of-line in the middle of a file name,
are you? What happened to your file? did it get random ^M all over it,
or were they just at the end of the line?