[ale] spaces in paths/directory names

[Bob's ALE Mail]

> If you enclose strings with spaces in 'quotes like this' shell scripts
> will quite barfing on them.

Well, that depends on how carefully the script is written.  If the script
nuke has:

	/bin/rm -rf $x

and you invoke it from root as

	nuke "/bin mine"

it will not do the desired thing.  If it was written as

	/bin/rm -rf "$x"

it will (but don't do this!)


> JimK
> Local Net Solutions
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