Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:42:13 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: why is this script failing? Message-ID: <A9D5B0AF-C367-4CF8-8954-2F78CA5E8F4C@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <20080715215024.GA82902@thought.org> References: <20080714201241.GA22443@thought.org> <20080715073651.P1638@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080715183500.GA76088@thought.org> <20080715190224.GC21840@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <20080715215024.GA82902@thought.org>
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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.
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