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RE: complete.tcsh doesn't handle spaces in $HOME


Hannu,

Here's the full set of recommendations:

Yours:
    Stick to [A-Za-z0-9-_.] characters in filenames, settings and such.

Plus:
Write all your scripts to accommodate the presence of spaces and shell metacharacters in file names.



This is a true pain in the ass... I wish everybody could stick to iso-8859-1 or its siblings.

This is unrealistic, chauvinistic and atavistic.


Randall Schulz


At 10:35 2003-04-02, you wrote:
> From: cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com [mailto:cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com]On Behalf
> Of Aaron Humphrey

> An easy workaround for this problem is just to wrap all of the
> $HOME/filename conditions in double quotes, which would probably
> be a good idea in a future release of tcsh.  Once I did this in
> complete.tcsh, tcsh started up just fine.

My experience is:
 You can expect to have the exact same problem with quite a few
scripts and other software.

My advice:
 Stick to [A-Za-z0-9-_.] characters in filenames, settings and such.

Sad to say, this does apply for almost any other "OS" too `:-P

/Hannu E K Nevalainen, Mariefred, Sweden


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