Re: Handling filenames with spaces.

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.free-online.co.uk>]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:

> 
>  As the title says, how do I deal with filenames that contain a space?
> 
>  I`ve tried using quotes, but I just get a `>` prompt.
> 

Single quotes? like this - ' or this ` ?

The ' is the one to use. I notice that you put ` round the >. I thought
that may be an indication of a problem.

Good luck,

Craig





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