[NCLUG] FreeBSD versus Linux?

[jbass at dmsd.com]

P. Scott DeVos writes:
> Even on Windows computers, any command line work involving filenames 
> with a space in them is a pain.  Spaces serve excellently as the 
> separator character, they have no place in filenames.  I would love to 
> have a talk with the dope that thought up the "documents and settings" 
> directory in Windows!  I'll take /home, /docs and /etc any day over that 
> mess.

Quoting with command line functions works just fine for embedded
spaces ... tools driving command scripts should automatically
quote all filenames, and the spaces then become transparent.

John