Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer Hyperlink Oddity

Spaces in a filename are a pain in all Unix/Linux command line actions. 

This is because a space is a delimiter, unless within quotes or escaped.
In shell scripts quotes and escapes (\  ) are interpreted, so any sub script does not get them, 
unless specific actions are taken, e.g. un Unix use single quotes around double quotes, so that the 
double quotes are sent to the called script. 

Anyway, spaces in a filename is really a pain..


On 15 mei 2016, at 00:53, Cley Faye wrote:

> 2016-05-14 9:23 GMT+02:00 Tom Davies <tomcecf@gmail.com>:
>
> > I've never understood why underscores are so popular.
>
>
> ​On that particular topic: ​even if almost all OS got support for spaces in
> file names (some later than others...), remember that spaces are also used
> as a separator in a lot of things.
>
> Obviously, good programming and carefulness can avoid almost all issues,
> but the amount of code that's either quickly written, or old, or
> unmaintained, or anything, that will not handle spaces in filenames is
> frightening. Shell scripts are a major contender of course, but some
> "higher level" programs can also mess things, if only by passing arguments
> to other programs or ignoring some FS-specific restrictions, etc.
> Add to that the inconsistencies (mainly from ONE os though... cough cough)
> and avoiding spaces in filenames (as well as avoiding other uncommon
> characters) is a sure-fire way to avoid any issue when working with all
> that.
>
> Not later than today I found myself giving the path of a file to a program,
> only to find out that that specific program will cut arguments *itself* on
> the spaces, in addition to taking multiple arguments. The developer
> probably never understood why he gets multiple values in argv[], but still.
>
> ​If only we could fix all the bad code out there​... ;)
>
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