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

[Alan Evans]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:
> Try looking at the kernel messages (dmesg).  I have seen media errors,
> especially on auto-mounted external devices like this, give similar
> results.
>
> Does "mount" show the correct device mounted there?
>
> Is it possibly some Unicode space (as opposed to ASCII 32)?  Try
> "grep My /proc/mounts | od -t c".
>
> Otherwise: no idea; I've never seen bash have a problem.  Try installing
> strace and running "strace bash -c 'cd /media/My*Book' 2>&1 | grep My".

Thanks, but I found the source of the problem (thanks to David Hawes
and Tom Horsley). See the list with the subject "[SOLVED]".