On 20.09.13 14:05, Jeremy Visser wrote:
Or, we could all just not be dicks, accept the fact that some filenames have spaces (because, shock horror, people *like* spaces), and deal with it like proper engineers should.
IME, when underscore is the *nix idiom for filenames_with_spaces, even the M$ fans can be amicably accommodated. (Just tell 'em it saves wear on their space bars.) It's just like taking your boots off before coming into the house avoids dog faeces on the carpet. That's a lot less effort than trying to deal with the pollution after it has occurred. So just naturalise any foreign filename. (Maybe running a rename on ~/Downloads/ would cover Russell's case.) Admittedly, having over more than a quarter of a century used¹ only unix variants, any solution I offer will naturally be unixversal. YMMV. Erik ¹ And my software teams were blessed with *nix servers all that time too, though many members used the other OS on their machines. A project often had thousands of files, with never a space character in them. -- Tecoma's Macca's-striking flash mob: " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7-0T1vbnWE Stop fat food joint opposite Tecoma preschool: www.change.org Taking democracy (98,000 signatures) from Australia to Chicago: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-17/tecoma-residents-take-fight-against-mc...