Filename conversion

Peter L. Peres plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org
Sun Apr 11 18:19:04 UTC 2004


On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, William Park wrote:

>     - If you want to specify spaces, then play with
> 	ls Set1?001.png
> 	ls Set1\ 001.png
> 	ls "Set1 001.png"
> 	ls 'Set1 001.png'

Or simply specify spaces in the filenames (using quotes or escapes as
shown by others). Or sumply press TAB at a shell prompt and he shell will
escape it for you. As in gimp Set1<TAB>001<TAB><ENTER>. Linux/bash does
not care what the filename chars are as long as there's no literal NUL in
them.

Peter
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