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Directory/File names

Unread post by redwil » 2018-05-09, 04:28

I appreciate your efforts to keep last sane browser alive.

Doing some clean up inside my home directory I noticed that inside $HOME/.cache directory there is a 'moonchild productions' directory that contains a space in the name.

I have not checked any other default or auto generated file name by the browser hence I cannot provide you a complete list of other files containing space or other non shell/script friendly characters.

I would suggest to change all of them to some other defaults that do not have characters known to create problems on various OSes (in my case linux).

For instance in the case of 'moonchild productions' I would suggest to use 'palemoon' since is pertaining to palemoon application

Thanks

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Re: Directory/File names

Unread post by Nigaikaze » 2018-05-09, 13:09

Previously discussed here:
viewtopic.php?f=13&t=14212
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Re: Directory/File names

Unread post by vannilla » 2018-05-09, 13:09

Spaces in file names don't create problems on any operative system.
If anything, they create issues with shells and/or terminal emulators, and even then you can just escape them (or use a better shell).

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Re: Directory/File names

Unread post by redwil » 2018-05-09, 14:09

I apologize to all for my hasty post. I may be a dinosaur in terms of using computers.

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Thank you for the topic link although I H_Eaven said it better than me

@vanilla
You are right technically there are various ways to deal with them as well with other special characters. It is more or less an inconvenience that can be avoided if you know about it.

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Re: Directory/File names

Unread post by Moonchild » 2018-05-10, 00:25

It's not even an inconvenience. Any modern file manager and shell can easily handle this -- which makes this more a matter of "what you're used to seeing" rather than actually hindering you in any way.
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