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Re: Help -- going posix space crazy
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Re: Help -- going posix space crazy


  • Subject: Re: Help -- going posix space crazy
  • From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 22:42:44 +0000
  • Mac-eudora-version: 6.0a6

At 6:08 am -0500 21/2/03, Marc Glasgow wrote:

The following works as long as the path doesn't have any spaces in the names -- then add spaces, and I get a format error for the mv command.

You have either to escape the spaces like\ this or put the pathname in quotes. <<quoted form of>> can be used if you like.

quoted form of POSIX path of "dx:some old file"
-- "'/some old file'"

JD
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