From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 16 01:42:20 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77F2B1065670 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:42:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dkelly@hiwaay.net) Received: from bee.hiwaay.net (bee.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3852E8FC0A for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:42:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dkelly@hiwaay.net) Received: from [10.0.0.183] ([216.186.148.249]) (authenticated bits=0) by bee.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6G1gFw51307222 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:42:18 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: From: David Kelly To: Gary Kline In-Reply-To: <20080715215024.GA82902@thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v926) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:42:13 -0500 References: <20080714201241.GA22443@thought.org> <20080715073651.P1638@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080715183500.GA76088@thought.org> <20080715190224.GC21840@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <20080715215024.GA82902@thought.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.926) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: why is this script failing? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:42:20 -0000 On Jul 15, 2008, at 4:50 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:02:24PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: >> >> Is probably best to postpone wildcard expansion until the last moment >> because if any of the filenames contain spaces the space will >> probably >> cause a break between arguments. The first time the wildcard >> expands to >> a filename with a space the space will be escaped. But the second >> time >> you use it that escape is lost. So its best to expand it in the place >> its needed. > > thanks for this clarification! until yesterday, whe you > mmentioned blanks[whitespace], as id a song title, i hadn't > tought about songs like "Not Ready to Make Nice.ogg" e.g. > I am not sure why these players store the song in wav format > without deleting the files, but when my limited /tmp is full, > certain aps fail mysteriously. with a fwdozen more line of code > they could at least fail more gracefully. You might consider adding something like setenv TMPDIR /home/dkelly/tmp setenv TMP /home/dkelly/tmp to your ~/.cshrc (or whatever appropriate for the shell you are using). This moves "/tmp" for cooperative applications into private space where you might have more room. Of course KDE is probably starting via a different route. Or maybe not. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.