[Gllug] shell quoting problem

[Alain Williams]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 12:08:16PM +0100, Mick Farmer wrote:
> Dear Alain,
> 
> Just escape the space.  This works for me.
> 
>      touch John\ Smith\ Senior
>      ls John\ Smith*

Quite. However the issue is to get this done easily (or avoided) with the
output of the locate command.

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