Re: Handling filenames with spaces.

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

> 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/

ah yes, but as soon as you get several spaces, then a single
pair of quotes becomes by far the easiest solution. You also
avoid 'leaning toothpick syndrome' (as frequently appear in Perl
regular expressions: /\/mnt\/win/\/Program\s+Files\// ;-)

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