Re: [9fans] sam & filenames containing whitespace

["Rob Pike" <robpike@gmail.com>]

Sam cannot handle file names with spaces.  There is one way to
work around this that I can think of without renaming the file.  Make
a new buffer with nothing in it.  ("B " without the quotes is how you
do that.)  Then

<cat 'a b'
edit
,>cat > 'a b'

Clunky but so be it. Sam comes from a system where spaces in
file names made no sense.

-rob

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/10/15 Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to work with files containing whitespace,
>> many programs in plan9 are happy with this but sam and B
>> don't appear to be (unless I have broken somthing).
>>
>> I can fix the buglet in B (some string flattening) but
>> a cursory look at the sam source and it seems to support
>> delimiters in commands (e.g. B "file with spaces in it.txt").
>>
>> however I cannot open files with whitespace in their names
>> even if it type them in in the sam command windows.
>>
>> am I missing somthing or is this a real bug?
>>
>> -Steve
>>
>
> So does anybody know? I don't. :(
> Ruda
>
>