From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-09-24T15:05:47+09:00
Subject: Re: "myscript.rb " - there's a blank in my name!

Mac OS (before X even) respects spaces in file names. At the  
beginning and at the end.
It's not the only *nix that does.

On Sep 24, 2007, at 12:54 AM, Todd Burch wrote:

> On a Mac - Tiger 10.4.10.
>
> I wrote a ruby script in TextWrangler (2.2.1) and saved it.  I
> inadvertently hit the space bar after the ".rb" and saved it.   
> Then, not
> realizing a blank got added to the name, I attempted to run it and it
> could not be found.  After messing with it, I realized the blank was
> saved as the third character after the "b" in .rb.
>
> Running
>
> ruby myscript.rb
>
> failed.
>
> Running
>
> ruby "myscript.rb "
>
> worked.  Is this a Mac thing?  I've nevver know a blank character  
> at the
> end of a file name to be significant.
>
> Todd
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