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   Message 28,884 of 30,566   
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to William Unruh   
   Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer ques   
   14 Aug 25 02:38:53   
   
   XPost: aus.computers, alt.os.linux.debian   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:21:33 -0000 (UTC), William Unruh wrote:   
      
   > Although I would not advise spaces in the mount name, as it makes it a   
   > pain to reference stuff in there on *nix systems.   
      
   Spaces in filesystem names don’t cause much of a problem, whether in shell   
   scripts or other programming languages.   
      
   Newlines in names ... that is slightly more challenging to deal with in   
   shell scripts.   
      
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