[Tutor] OS lib creating an directory using an absolute path.
Alan Gauld
alan.gauld at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Feb 8 04:03:21 EST 2021
On 07/02/2021 00:18, boB Stepp wrote:
>> Speaking personally I find filenames/folders with spaces continually
>> trip me up, especially in shell scripts and programs.
> I take your points about care in quoting and splitting paths, but doesn't
> one, nowadays, have to be prepared to deal with potential spaces as well as other
> irksome characters?
In production code of course. But many of my scripts are for personal
use and I don't *expect* to find spaces in names. But of course
occasionally I do :-(
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