Annoying behavious of Nautilus when drag+drop as link

Loïc Grenié loic.grenie at gmail.com
Fri Jul 18 19:46:36 UTC 2008


2008/7/18 Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org>:
> On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 16:28 +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:
>> Not to mention stupid, since among other
>> things it introduces spaces into the link name... which means more
>> work/attention if writing scripts etc.
>
> Whatever the merits of the Nautilus behavior, but come on! :)
> Any script that barfs on spaces is broken.

     There are more system scripts than you'd think that barf on
  spaces. In addition by default xargs for instance takes spaces
  as filename separators and filenames with embedded spaces
  are a pain to manipulate with ssh/scp.

        Loïc




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