{"id":22744,"date":"2022-10-12T21:28:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T01:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=22744"},"modified":"2023-08-09T21:13:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T01:13:08","slug":"why-i-dislike-spaces-and-other-difficult-characters-in-filenames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=22744","title":{"rendered":"Why I dislike spaces and other difficult characters in filenames"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

when I c\/p a long pathname by triple-clickt-rclick-copy select where i want it, paste; tripple click stops on whitespace, which a space is<\/p>\n\n\n\n

when iona command line, tab completion stops on a whatedpasce. whitespace<\/p>\n\n\n\n

thuinderbiord, a long time ago, had a bug where a filename attached that had a space (and others)? would not actually be attached on sending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

bacth file and command line: have to use ” or ‘ to enclose odd chars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

odd chars can be like & and + and the various slashes , but that’s another fucking thing to deal with<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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n example of the apostrophe in a filename: the original file would have a ‘ in the contraction “youre”, but likely was excluded due to being a special character in many filesystems (for quoting to command line stuff (like a filespec with spaces in it). And is also easily confused with the backquote, another problematic beast seen in the *nix-like world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n