directory names with spaces

[CMonster3]

What do I enter in the bash profile so that the shell will handle directory names with spaces? KDE has no problems going into say /mnt/Windows/Progam Files but bash chokes on dir names that contain spaces.. SuSE 9, Drake 9.1 I forget which I was using at the time....

[The_Whizzard]

/mnt/Windows/Progam\ Files

[CMonster3]

I know that \ will work on a case by case basis, but I am looking for something a little more seemless -some of the default Linux installs of various distros the bash shell has no trouble with spaces, but not others -I guess I should just figure out which and examine the bash profile differences. I just thought someone might know the tweak off the top of thier head.

I get frustrated when I do a command like

cp -ax /some/directory /to/destination

and it chokes on a subdirectory somewhere that contains a space in the name

[gorn]

cp -ax /some/directory /to/destination should /not/ choke if it hits a space, the only times spaces effect anything is when inputting them, and you just need a \ or put the whole thing in quotes (eg "/foo/Program Files&quot

[pbharris]

hello,
i just use cp -R and never have an issue

e.g.

[pbharris@bugs ~/tmp]ls -R crappo/
crappo/:
space one  space three  space two

crappo/space one:
crap  poo hoo

crappo/space one/crap:

crappo/space one/poo hoo:
poo three

crappo/space one/poo hoo/poo three:

crappo/space three:

crappo/space two:
[pbharris@bugs ~/tmp]cp -R crappo morecrappo
[pbharris@bugs ~/tmp]ls -R morecrappo/
morecrappo/:
space one  space three  space two

morecrappo/space one:
crap  poo hoo

morecrappo/space one/crap:

morecrappo/space one/poo hoo:
poo three

morecrappo/space one/poo hoo/poo three:

morecrappo/space three:

morecrappo/space two:

[CMonster3]

gorn -you're right, bad example on my part

just trying to figure out why I have problems with some default bash configurations and not others

pbharris -sometimes you are too funny, are you sure you were not the "old fart" in the now defunct "linux lounge" forums?

[pbharris]

hey Cmonster - i don't think so. i am working on geezer before i become old fart.


you may wnat to check alaises - some distros alias the cp to somthing like cp -i , but i am not sure why that would matter.