An interesting problem

UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
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hi!,
here is an interesting problem .....

I ftp a file named " my first file.doc" from windows to my HP workstation.

Ftp is succesful. The file appears with the same name in my home directory.. But now how do I open this file??

while using Vi or More or other editor, they take only the first part "My" and create a new file. any ideas how to open this file?? I dont wanna change the filename in windows and ftp again..

:smiley:

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Hello there,

What you can actually do is change the name and add underscore between the words.Unix does NOT understand files with spaces. You can make it look something like that.
"my_first_file.doc".
You can even get rid of the *.doc extension.

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Thanx Guest100,
I know thats the simplest way for doing it. But with many experts out here in this forum, i looking for an unconventional way to open the file in Unix only without going back to that Silly Microsoft's windows.
:smiley:

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hi

If you have got sth like My Foo Bar.doc, a silly windoze file name,you may try My\ Foo\ Bar.doc in Unix just have a try
i DONT know whether it works under your OS

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thanx Sed,
It works fine on HP-UX..
:):slight_smile:

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You could also just enclose the filename in quotes:

vi "<I>file name</I>"