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04-03-2009

SDelroen

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Spaces behaviour in shell

Hello,

I am a bit puzzled by the way my shell treats spaces in filenames.

An example will be way clearer than any explanation I can make:

Code:

$ ls test\ file\ with\ spaces
test file with spaces
$ var="test\ file\ with\ spaces"
$ echo $var
test\ file\ with\ spaces
$ ls $var
ls: cannot access test\: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access file\: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access with\: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access spaces: No such file or directory

The problem is the same if I am using double quotes around the filename or when I nest a command displaying the filename.

I've been crawling on the internet for a long time, but I haven't been able to find any documentation on this particular issue.

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