On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 10:45:44AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 05:41:18AM -0500, fred smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
> | > No. It sort of works without the parens. His quoting problems (lack of) will
> | > bite him as soon as he hits a less common filename.
> | For my enlightenment, please remind me of what "quoting problems"
> | you're referring to? I seem to have missed some parts of this thread.
> <snip>
> In the shell you _always_ want to say exactly what you mean, eg:
>
> mv "$file" "`command to lowercase $file`"
>
> which will prevent white space interpolation in the command.
>
> The point is that while this might work for you, it's guarrenteed that
> the person who takes your code and uses it will have the worst case
> dataset to use with your code :-(
Yes, that's true. Assume the worst. Thanks for the reminder.
OTOH, I have this almost religious aversion to idiots who put spaces
in filenames. This includes the persons in the northwestern corner
of the 48-states who make it possible to do that. :^)
Fred
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