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Dealing with unwieldy filenames in the shell
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| $ printf -v filename '"%s" - "%s".epub' "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" 'Carrol, Lewis' | |
| $ printf '[%s]\n' "$filename" | |
| ["Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" - "Carrol, Lewis".epub] | |
| $ >> "$filename" | |
| $ ls | |
| "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" - "Carrol, Lewis".epub | |
| $ for f in *; do printf '[%s]\n' "$f"; done | |
| ["Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" - "Carrol, Lewis".epub] |
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