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[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago

“\ “ and [tab] and * are your friends. I’ve been using spaces in Unix filesystems since the early 90s with no issues. Also, using terminal fonts that•put•a•faint•dot•in•each•space•character helps.

[-] ShaunaTheDead@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] silasmariner@programming.dev 14 points 1 year 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@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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/

[-] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Does SSH require quoting commands?

[-] gears@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year 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

[-] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 1 points 1 year 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.

[-] LocustOfControl@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] cobra89@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah but at least with periods in the title tab complete will just complete the file name all the way while with a filename with spaces I have to escape the damn space with "\ " like you said. Why do more work when I don't have to?