My war against spaces in filenames is lost. Even if I would never dare type one, my hardrive keeps receiving them from computer illiterate colleagues.
Admittedly, they are not a big pain until I want to make backups. My backup script contained a
for file in `find . -type f`do
...
done
kind of script. But whenever the found filename contained an space, my variable $file contained part of the filename and a huge mess unleashed.
Here is, however, a neat solution to my troubles:
find . -type f -name '*' | while read file
do
...
done
