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UWA week 40 (2nd semester, week 10) ↓

2nd project Directories with spaces (both)

5:42am Tue 3rd Oct, Christopher M.

ANONYMOUS wrote:

> When we are invoking the mysync program how should we handle the case of a directory like the one below? > > /media/UNIWA 2xxxxxxx/myUSB

Spaces may occur in any names, directories or files.

> This would be classified as two separate arguments unless it is enclosed in quotations. Are we able to assume that these types of directories are to be called with quotations so as to ensure that they are seen as a single argument?

It's only the shell, not your C code that will consider a name with spaces as 2 arguments, so we need to use the syntax of the shell to keep the 'pieces' as one argument: '/media/UNIWA 2xxxxxxx/myUSB' or "/media/UNIWA 2xxxxxxx/myUSB" or "/media/UNIWA\ 2xxxxxxx/myUSB" So anyone calling your program will need to use on of the above techniques to provide a name with spaces. By the time your program receives the name, the 'extra characters' will not be present.