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Re: Unnamed documents

From Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Unnamed documents
Date 2015-05-12 01:25 +0000
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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.

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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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