Whitespace On The Command Line

[Greg Edwards]

Carlo,
Sounds like an issue purely in your shell level, nedit is fine with spaces.
See attached pic of nedit junk\ junk -xrm "*.background: red"
(This is in bash on MacOS 10.5)

What m/c and os and shell are you on ?
Can you do other things with filenames incl. spaces ?
ls > 'junk junk' ?

Ok, world's oldest Unix trivia question, while we're on this sort of thing
..
Try    ls > -t
Then try to rm the file you created.

Greg E





2008/5/2 Carlo Graziani <carlo at oddjob.uchicago.edu>:

> Hi Nediters.
>
> I can't seem to get the nedit command-line to parse arguments with
> whitespace properly.  For example, a filename like 'foo foo' cannot
> be picked up by invocations like
>
> %> nedit 'foo foo'
> %> nedit foo\ foo
> %> nedit "foo foo"
> %> nedit 'foo\ foo'
>
> and so on.  No combination of quoting and escaping that I've tried
> seems to work.  The file menu has no trouble with displaying and
> selecting the file, but all the above command-line invocations
> result in failed stats on files with names like 'foo' or 'foo\'.
>
> It's not just filenames.  I couldn't get the -xrm option to work
> with a resource string containing whitespace either, despite the
> same flailing about with escaping and quoting.
>
> So is there a work-around for this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carlo
>
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