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imd on March 19, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: "No Dashes Or Spaces" Hall of Shame

Who else thought this would be a hall of shame for Unix apps that don't work with files that have spaces in their names?

jrockway on March 19, 2010 [–]

All of them.

In Cygwin, my home directory is /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/myusername. This breaks fucking everything. I have to re-export $HOME as /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/myusername.

Yes, Windows also sucks.

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