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| From | Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
| Subject | Re: Unnamed documents |
| Date | 2015-05-12 01:25 +0000 |
| Organization | NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $23.95 |
| Message-ID | <mirkr4011t0@news4.newsguy.com> (permalink) |
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On 2015-05-11, Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> wrote: > On 11/05/15 20:45, William Unruh wrote: > >> will work. In all cases bash treats the spaces as characters, not >> terminators. (Yes, it is the shell that does that). Note that you could >> also tell the system to use some other character as the word terminator >> if you wanted, but it is not advisable except in unusual circunstances. >> (Not that I can tell you right now how to do that) >> >> Eg in the above you could make : bash's word terminator, and then the >> spaces would be fine. > > Hmm > > rm:-rf:somefile:someotherfile > > Or we could just accept that whitespace in filenames are the work of > Satan and remember what the underscore character is for ;-> > > Essentially it's all Bill Gates' fault... Ah, but his crime is overloading the backslash. One of his crimes, anyway. -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
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Unnamed documents helge <w4h@nurfuerspam.de> - 2015-05-11 10:10 +0000
Re: Unnamed documents Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-05-11 11:17 +0100
Re: Unnamed documents helge <w4h@nurfuerspam.de> - 2015-05-11 11:03 +0000
Re: Unnamed documents William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-05-11 19:45 +0000
Re: Unnamed documents The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-05-11 21:10 +0100
Re: Unnamed documents Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-05-11 21:34 +0100
Re: Unnamed documents Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-05-12 01:25 +0000
Re: Unnamed documents Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-05-11 11:21 +0100
Re: Unnamed documents "Anonymous Remailer (austria)" <mixmaster@remailer.privacy.at> - 2015-05-11 22:42 +0200
Re: Unnamed documents Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2015-05-16 18:23 +0000
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