Re: Spaces in file and directory names.

["Brandon S. Allbery" <allbery hilfy ece cmu edu>]

In message <yd90gacw9g.fsf@euler.adams.com>, Gisli Ottarsson writes:
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| The directory hierarchy that is visible in the file manager
| application has several directories with spaces in them: My Documents,
| My Sounds and Spread Sheets.  Considering that spaces in filenames may
| be chief in a range of silly ideas that have come out of MicroSoft I
| would hope that the gnome project would not follow this lead.
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Spaces in filenames were brought to you by Apple (if not Xerox), and date at 
least to the Lisa.  And it's a bit late to do anything about their use.

Those of us who use command lines by and large understand the concept of 
quoting, so such names are not much of a hardship.  Moreover, bash understands 
quoting as well (although ksh doesn't, so care may be required on non-Linux 
systems) so you can even use completion.

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