Re: Spaces in directory or file names

[Todd Denniston]

"Derek R. Price" wrote:
> 
> Todd Denniston wrote:
> 
> > Donald Sharp wrote:
> > >
> > > It seems to work for me when I just tried it..
> > >
> > > Create a test repository and create a filename with a space in it
> > > try different things with it.  See if it works.
> > >
> > > donald
> > well one thing it seems I can not do is use the directory as a module
> > i.e. in the modules file
> > proj_source             proj_rootdir/proj Source
> > proj_source             proj_rootdir/proj\ Source
> > proj_source             "proj_rootdir/proj Source"
> >
> > none of the above will work.
> > I get the following for the above
> > cvs [server aborted]: there is no repository /CVSROOT/proj_rootdir/proj
> > cvs [server aborted]: there is no repository /CVSROOT/proj_rootdir/proj\
> > cvs [server aborted]: there is no repository /CVSROOT/"proj_rootdir/proj
> >
> > server 1.10.7
> > client 1.10.8
> >
> > looks like I am going to at least have to get rid of spaces in the dir 
> > names,
> > unfortunately the above dir is not the only one with spaces... time to pull 
> > out
> > bash, and sed :{
> 
> Or abandon your use of the modules file.
> 
> Derek
> 
Actually I found I could sneak around this problem with the creative use of
simlinks.
create a bottom level directory called links and put simlinks to the
directories I want as modules, fortunately I only have one for now.

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