RE: Re: Filenames with "/"

["Chris F.A. Johnson" <yyyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Seeds, Glen wrote:

> The prudent shell script writer will also use "$@" and `ls` rather than
> $* and *, to guard against embedded spaces.
   The prudent script writer will use "$@" instead of $* when that is
   what's wanted (as it usually is), but using `ls` instead of *
   exacerbates the problem of spaces in file names.

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