Re: Handling filenames with spaces.

[Bob Ham <nospam [at] dcs.shef.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Al Hudson wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:
> 
> >  As the title says, how do I deal with filenames that contain a space?

I'm surprised nobody mentioned is already, but the easiest way to use
spaced filenames is to escape it with '\'.  ie:

	"/mnt/win/Program Files/"

becomes

	/mnt/win/Program\ Files/

You should see that if you get ls to show you the directory's name.

Bob

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