not sure if it is a bug, but...

[Eureka Trek]

Recently I found myself in the position of having to
copy material from a cd using the command "cp".

The material being copied from the cd was burned to
the cd using Nautilus's CD/DVD Creator.  The default
name given to the cd was:  "Personal Data, Feb 13,
2007".  Note the spaces in the name.

When I issued the command:
 cp /media/Personal Data, Feb 13, 2007/*
/[destination]

I had the following output:

cp: cannot stat `/media/Personal': No such file or
directory
cp: cannot stat `Data,': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `Feb': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `13,': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `2007/*': No such file or directory

It seems that the cp command interpreted the spaces as
indicating seperate files in the media directory
rather than the file name of the cd.

Not really sure if this is a bug on the part of the
command "cp" or just bad programming on the part of
the Nautilus CD/DVD Creator developers in having a
default naming convention for discs that includes
spaces in the name.  Either way I though it best to
report the situation to you as well as them.


 
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