this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2023
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Spaces can exist in filenames. The only problem is that they have to be escaped. As the comment that you reread explained,
cat hello world.txt
would print the fileshello
andworld.txt
. If you wanted to print the file"hello world.txt"
you'd either need to quote it (cat "hello world.txt"
) or escape the space (cat hello\ world.txt
)Oh, the horror!