[PLUG] substitution question...

[chris (fool) mccraw]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 20:16, chris (fool) mccraw <gently at gmail.com> wrote:

> having written the same script lo these many years ago, i can only
> advise heartily against spaces in filenames.  that took hours to
> convince me that i would never be able to successfully handle the
> mishmash of filenames i'd collected over the years, some of which had
> ' and " in the filename to screw up my \\\\quoting.

er, never be able to handle *in a shell script*, i meant to say.  my
perl-fu increased greatly once i came to that conclusion.