From: Ron Fox <fox@...>
Date: 2007-09-25T21:25:04+09:00
Subject: Re: "myscript.rb " - there's a blank in my name!

 From a shell command:

mv "myscript.rb " myscript.rb

Bye bye blank.

RF

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