Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <000701c3db8a$4f268480$0b7b2852@leper> Reply-To: From: To: Cc: References: <000b01c3db63$4c975fe0$580210ac@tcgp.dundee.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Filenames with spaces: very rare in Cygwin Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:09:17 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Jan 2004 17:09:36.0850 (UTC) FILETIME=[5A99BB20:01C3DB8A] > FWIW, space is a valid filename character on both Unix and Windows. > This means that any script that assumes filenames to be space-free (and > lacking other shell special characters) is, IMO, broken. Yes, I see the force of this. Thank you. I will look at the script and try to amend it so that it no longer stumbles at these three. Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/