moving folders

[Ari Torhamo]

ke, 2005-02-09 kello 16:32 +0000, Colin Watson kirjoitti:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 06:16:17PM +0200, Ari Torhamo wrote:
> > ke, 2005-02-09 kello 15:28 +0000, Jon Dixon kirjoitti:
> > > Or do Floppy\ Files ...
> > > 
> > > Or use bash's completion.
> > > 
> > > Or use more *nix-friendly names :)
> > 
> > I hope this thing is going to get fixed sometime in the future. Things
> > not working properly when leaving a space between the words in a name of
> > a directory sounds like a place for improvement. Would fixing this be
> > difficult, much work or cause other problems? 
> 
> Things work fine provided you quote properly. It's not a fundamental
> problem; just some people write shoddy code, that's all.
> 
> When using a shell by hand, tab-completion is definitely the way
> forward, and is much easier than typing the filename out by hand anyway.
> :-) Since spaces are used to separate arguments in the shell, this is by
> far the easiest approach that doesn't involve a total loss of backward
> compatibility.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
> 

Thanks for a good and newbie friendly awnser :-) (nine months using
Linux - I guess I can still be called a newbie)

Backward compatibility - that's important. I say no more of spaces in
file names. 

Tab-completion - very handy. I tried it onece, but already forgot that
such thing exists :-( I have to learn to use quotes too (do I have to
quote the whole path, or is it enough just to quote the file name? (two
quotation marks in both cases - I know :))

Now I'm off to study the Rute User's Tutorial - thanks for the
inspiration :-)

Cheers,

Ari Torhamo