Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> wrote:
On 20.09.13 19:18, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Erik Christiansen writes:
ยน And my software teams were blessed with *nix servers all that time too, though many members used the other OS on their machines.
VMS?
I hope so, and preferably not a system running that kernel which some VMS developers later contributed to.
The couple of curiously emotional posts on this thread, do seem to reveal a lack of scripting (and possibly even command line) experience, because having to quote "filenames with real space characters in them", in order to avoid the CLI barfing, tends to clarify that they are alien. The CLI cannot deal with them, and it is only our protective work-arounds which allow them to be tunnelled in a script.
That's why I keep such file names off my machines, and I don't bother with the work-arounds in local scripts because the presence of any file name containing spaces on any of my machines is a problem to be fixed by appropriate renaming.