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

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Alan Evans wrote:
> This is an on-again-off-again kind of problem. It usually hits me when
> it is least convenient, like when I only have shell access to the
> machine. Example:
> 
> [alan@agena ~]$ cd /media/My\ Book/
> bash: cd: /media/My: No such file or directory
> [alan@agena ~]$ cd "/media/My Book/"
> bash: cd: /media/My: No such file or directory
> [alan@agena ~]$ Gaaah!
> bash: Gaaah!: command not found
> 
Note that the last error is different, the "!" character has special meaning to 
bash, and even quotes don't keep it from being evaluated, although single quotes 
and backslash do.

In other words you have two separate issues here, the last one is no surprise.

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
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