Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 10:49:43 -0400 (EDT) From: BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> To: ringlord@bbs.dcoisp.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Accessing files with spaces in the names. Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980920104607.24622E-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca> In-Reply-To: <TCPSMTP.18.9.19.14.56.8.3047923923.41086@bbs.dcoisp.net>
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On Sat, 19 Sep 1998 ringlord@bbs.dcoisp.net wrote: > Greetings folks. > I just received a zip file from a client, which contains a series of > files with spaces in the file names. > For example, when I do an ls on the directory the files are zipped into, > one of the files has a name of Merchant Lot 1 Photo.jpg > This zipfile was created on a win95 machine that allows long file names. > I have tryed to figure out how to rename these files to files with one > name to them. > when I typed, mv Merchant Lot 1 Photo.jpg merchantlot.jpg Try: % mv Merchant\ Lot\ 1\ Photo.jpg merchantlot.jpg It works under tcsh. Anyways, any shell that knows about filename completion will complete the filename to a compatible filename. > I was told that the files Merchant Lot 1 Photo.jpg could not be found. > How does one go about accessing these files with such long names? > I have even tryed inserting . _ marks, but nothing works. Normal. Marks and dots and such will make a different filename, in tcsh, '\' is the escape char, which means "the following must be treated as such". +-----------------------------------+ | Free the world from businessmen | | Free yourself from your money | +-----------------------------------+ Free the web. Spidey visit: http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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