Re: [9fans] simple question: multiple rename

[Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>]

the easiest thing to do is not use spaces in
your file names, even if others do in theirs.
most people take that approach, even on unix,
and it works fine.

if you are worried about names with spaces
and want to make a script more robust, then
the simplest option is to set ifs='
'
while you are manipulating the file names
with `{} commands.  spaces may be allowed
but newlines most certainly are not.  i keep
nl='
'
in my profile specifically so i can say ifs=$nl.

> using ws in filenames is a fossil-only problem;
> kfs, cwfs and ken's fs won't allow it.

gee, i'm pretty sure i read somewhere that
plan 9 lets any program be a file server ...

>> So what happens when you drawterm from a un*x box or access a VFAT partition?
>
> nothing.  i'm running ken's fs, so from drawterm ...

the question (quoted) was about talking to non-plan 9
file systems, i.e. a linux or windows /mnt/term or
a dossrv disk.

if you are trying to disallow space you'd have
to fiddle with every file server you could possibly
talk to, or you'd have to edit the kernel.
the barn door has been open for a decade.
it's very late to be talking about closing it.
http://swtch.com/cgi-bin/plan9history.cgi?f=1999/0323/port/chan.c;v=diff;e=1

russ