[PLUG] Update: Strange Bash Behavior vis-a-vis Embedded Spaces and Wildcards

[Casey Bralla <MailList@nerdworld.org>]

Ooops, I over-simplified the example:

try

 ls "directory with spaces/*name"   (with a wildcard).  



but 

 ls directory\ with\ spaces/*name  works



Also, as David Coulson suggested

  ls "directory with spaces"/*name also works.

It must be something with the quoted wildcard.







On Saturday, January 26, 2013 4:13:37 PM Casey Bralla wrote:
> I recently tried to do a file deletion and got some strange results.
> 
> If I did this command:
> 
> rm "/directory with spaces/filename" (with quotes around the full path and
> file name) the command would error out with a file-not-found error.
> 
> However, this command works just fine:
> 
> rm /directory\ with\ spaces/filename
> 
> 
> I thought quoting the filename would work, but I had to escape the spaces
> to make it work.  I find the escape method to be difficult to read, while
> the quoted string is very easy.  Hence, I always use the quoted method.
> 
> Can anybody explain why the quoted string does not work?

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