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Dealing with spaces in file names in a shell script
Post 302223825 by sudhamacs on Monday 11th of August 2008 01:59:23 PM
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I got one simple TXT file with long file name with blank spaces in between the words. I am trying to display that full file name, but it breaks while displaying. Could somebody shed some light here?
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