Re: [aclug-L] rmdir question

[Jeff <schaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Maverick, Ven-Han Ieong wrote:

> it works!

Yay!

> Just for my knowledge, how do you know the directory name is contain space or
> not? Thanks

If your shell has filename expansion, and the filename doesn't start with
anything crazy, you can do:

$ more f[TAB]

and the shell will put quotes around it for you.

You can also do 'ls -lQ' or 'ls -lb'.

John's trick is a good one to remember, too.

-jeff

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