Re: OT: spaces in pathnames
Re: OT: spaces in pathnames
- Subject: Re: OT: spaces in pathnames
- From: Jonas Maebe <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 15:25:52 +0200
On 8 jun 2005, at 15:18, Lawrence Paulson wrote:
Specifically, I have to pass an argument list from one program to
another. It seems that I have to write the filenames to a file.
Using ls -db, I can write the filenames with special characters
fully escaped. The second program (invoked via open-x11) somehow
needs to read these filenames. If I use $(<$FILENAME), the
filenames get split at the spaces despite the backslashes, e.g.
Isabelle\ app\ bundle becomes three words.
Use
"$FILENAME"
(*including* the double quotes)
Apple itself made the mistake of leaving out those double quotes
once: http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,48149,00.html
Jonas
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