What's up with bash shell and spaces in filenames?

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Mon May 10 16:53:48 UTC 2010


Once upon a time, Mark Knoop <mark at opus11.net> said:
> > [alan at agena media]$ ls -bl
> > total 4
> > drwx------. 1 alan alan 4096 2010-05-10 08:12 My\ Book
> 
> Here is your answer. The directory name is "My\ Book", so you will have
> to use:

Nope, see "man ls" and look for -b.
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.


More information about the users mailing list