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Shell metacharacters

Shell metacharacters

Posted Jan 31, 2011 21:21 UTC (Mon) by lakeland (subscriber, #1157)
In reply to: Shell metacharacters by cesarb
Parent article: Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15

Personally I like that. I use spaces in my file names - can you believe how many shell scripts break because they don't escape file and folder names? You start having default system installs with spaces and hashes in them and maybe shell script writers will include them in their testing.


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