[tex-k] LaTeX segfaults with source specials and space in filename

[Frank Küster]

Fabrice Popineau <Fabrice.Popineau at supelec.fr> wrote:

>
> What I find intriguing is that clearly the unix doesn't take care of
> handling filenames with spaces. So I wonder how it can crash because of
> this filename.

Well, UNIX (at least Linux with bash) can deal fine with spaces in
filenames, as long as they are correctly escaped. It even does TAB
completion on them.

$ touch "foo bar.tex"
$ ls foo\ bar.tex 
foo bar.tex
$ ls "foo bar.tex"
foo bar.tex


Bye, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie