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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Spaces Between Words in Files
Keywords: How and Why?
Message-ID: <14513@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 17 Nov 90 15:27:46 GMT
References: <1990Nov16.200510.22830@cbnewsk.att.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1990Nov16.200510.22830@cbnewsk.att.com> abar@cbnewsk.att.com (jerome.t.abar..jr) writes:
>The problem is a file that has two words with a space between
>them, such as "foo bar".  How does a file like this get created,
>and how do you read it?

You just do it.  If you're using a shell that parses the command
line into words split at occurrences of white space, you have to
somehow quote the space in the filename to keep the shell from
dividing it into two arguments:
	cat 'foo bar'

>... it doesn't work when I try cat f*.

It ought to.  The shell is supposed to expand the pattern f* into
a series of arguments, but not further parse the arguments.