From: Konrad Meyer <konrad@...>
Date: 2007-09-25T03:41:26+09:00
Subject: Re: "myscript.rb " - there's a blank in my name!

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Quoth Chad Perrin:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 03:04:27PM +0900, Konrad Meyer wrote:
> > Quoth Todd Burch:
> > > Todd Burch wrote:
> > >=20
> > > > I've nevver know a blank character at the
> > > > end of a file name to be significant.
> > > >=20
> > > "never known" ...   sorry.
> >=20
> > Yes, on *nix systems this is significant (probably windows too, I'm just
> > unfamiliar with it). You can also do "ruby myprog.rb\ " to escape the=20
space.
>=20
> If I'm not mistaken, MacOS X uses bash as its default shell.  That would
> mean you don't actually need to escape the space if you use quotes:
>=20
>   $ ruby "myprog.rb "
>=20
> The same is true of (t)csh:
>=20
>   > ruby 'myprog.rb '
>=20
> In either shell, whether you use single or double quotes doesn't matter,
> and escaping the space (without quotes) also works.
>=20
> Whether or not the space is significant when first naming the file
> depends on how you name it.  I believe that is true on MS Windows as well
> as systems such as MacOS X, various Linux distributions, SysV and BSD
> Unix systems, and so on -- though I don't have an MS Windows machine in
> front of me to test it.  An extra space after a filename shouldn't
> produce a space character in the the filename itself when entered at a
> command line shell, but will probably do so with certain GUI-oriented
> means of naming files.
>=20
> --=20
> CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
> McCloctnick the Lucid: "The first rule of magic is simple. Don't waste yo=
ur
> time waving your hands and hopping when a rock or a club will do."

The quotes were for quoting the entire command, not the argument.
Escaping works without quotes. Tab-completion will should you the escaped
form (sans quotes).

Regards,
=2D-=20
Konrad Meyer <konrad@tylerc.org> http://konrad.sobertillnoon.com/

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