Spaces (and other characters) in filenames

[John DeCarlo]

On 8/23/06, Freddie Cash <fcash-ml at sd73.bc.ca> wrote:
> What's difficult?  Just put "" around the filenames and everything
> Just Works.  :)  Works with any and all command line apps.  If there's
> some really crazy characters in the file/directory name (like * or ?),
> then use single quotes '' instead.
>
> # cd "/some/long directory_path/With weir' names/and_ filenames.txt"
> # cp "this is a bad file name as there's punctuation...txt" /some/dir
> # oowriter "some other filename with spaces.odt"

The funny thing about this is that I started always putting quotes
around variables ("$1") in Windows (DOS) scripts.  So I naturally
carried over the practice to Linux.

Just good practice if the variable may contain spaces.

-- 
John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own