• ShaunaTheDead
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    97 months ago

    Yeah, either put quotes around it ‘/like this/you can incorporate/spaces/into your paths’ or /just\ escape/your\ spaces/like\ this

    • @[email protected]
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      137 months ago

      This is fine for the most basic of use cases but once you start looping through file names or what have you, you have to start writing robust correct bash and nobody does that

    • @gears
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      7 months ago

      It gets real crazy when you’re sending remote commands so you have to escape the escapes so that the remote keeps them and properly escapes the space

      ssh -t remote "mv /home/me/folder\\\ with \\\ spaces /home/me/downloads/

        • @gears
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          17 months ago

          It doesn’t for commands without spaces (i.e reboot) You might be able to escape the spaces and not use quotes, I’m not sure

          • @[email protected]
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            17 months ago

            Might be client-dependent; I’ve regularly ran commands with spaces (e.g. ssh a@a.local ssh b@b.local) without a problem.

      • @[email protected]
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        17 months ago

        Yup, this is me with scp. Well, it would be if I didn’t just use asterisks to avoid that PITA.