fred smith wrote: >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 > Those guys in eastern scandinavia let you do it too :) But then I guess that is why we are having the discussion.
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