Re: Handling filenames with spaces.

[David Mitchell <nospam [at] fdgroup.co.uk>]

> >  As the title says, how do I deal with filenames that contain a space?

practically any shell will allow

rm 'a space'
or
rm "a space"

note that backticks (`) do something different:

rm `echo hello`

runs the command between the backticks (echo hello), grabs any output
produced (hello) and inserts it into the orignal command between the
backticks. So the command becomes

rm hello

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