On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 08:41:46PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Aleksey Midenkov wrote: > > rmcmd="$rmprog -f" > > > > Because it will fail for files with spaces. > > I am sure we disagree but I don't consider making rm program names > have spaces to be reasonable. :-/ > > What would it be? "remove command"? I definitely would not consider > an executable named with spaces that way to be reasonable.
How about /mnt/c/Program Files/something/DEL.EXE? The directory might contain spaces even if the command name itself does not.
