Annoying behavious of Nautilus when drag+drop as link

[Loïc Grenié]

2008/7/18 Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org>:
> On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 21:46 +0200, Loïc Grenié wrote:
>>      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.
>
> Thanks for the info. I am not a cmd line expert, but I find this a sad
> state of affairs. I give you scp, but on first glance it seems that
> there is little excuse not to handle spaces properly with xargs:

[snip]

    There is indeed little excuse and I think all scripts use the
  print0/-0 combination. Fact is: the "special" characters in
  filenames tend to be a nuisance when you use command-line
  (because you have to put quotes everywhere, use print0/-0).
  To the point: better not to name "Link to " if it can be helped !

           Loïc