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Question by Braden McCollum
Submitted on 2/19/2004
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Is there an escape code for a 'space' in file pathnames for FTP??
From RFC959: Pathname is defined to be the character string which must be input to a file system by a user in order to identify a file. Pathname normally contains device and/or directory names, and file name specification.  FTP does not yet specify a standard pathname convention.  Each user must follow the file naming conventions of the file systems involved in the transfer.

I don't know if FTP commands allows spaces in the filenames/pathnames. I logged in to a unix server sol7 and entered this:

ftp> ls "-l /label/710c/rev1/fonts/Courier New-100-600-PCL.fnt"
200 PORT command successful.
150 ASCII data connection for /bin/ls (172.16.113.189,2330) (0 bytes).
/label/710c/rev1/fonts/Courier: No such file or directory
New-100-600-PCL.fnt: No such file or directory

Now if I'm in a UNIX shell and I enter this, it works fine:
ls -l /label/710c/rev1/fonts/Courier\ New-100-600-PCL.fnt

Note in the Unix command above how I escaped the space right after Courier. I tried the same thing with the FTP command and got the result that it wasn't found.

So- is there an escape code for a 'space'?? I'm currently using ?, but this is more of a wildcard....




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