[TriLUG] RE with bash

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Aaron S. Joyner wrote:

> But it doesn't handle 'Flash|Player' as a directory name.  I don't have to 
> think through the general solution, but reading this made me want to point 
> out that you're just trading off the space character as a potential problem 
> for the pipe character.

I was falling over file/directory names with blanks in them 
all over the place. This solution was a big enough step 
forward that I'm very happy. I guess sometimes doing the job 
badly is good enough, However your caution is well taken: I 
am setting myself up for trouble in the future. A quick look 
at /tmp and there aren't any filenames with '|' in them 
right now. The only two chars that aren't allowed in 
filenames are '\n' and '\0' (NULL). I should think about 
replacing the '|' with one of them.

> but it's important to be aware that you're not solving the 
> root problem, you're just conveniently avoiding it.

yes you're right

thanks Joe

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