[Novalug] unzip question

Dan Arico dan_arico@aricosystems.com
Tue May 22 00:29:58 EDT 2007


On Mon May 21 2007 11:54 pm, Charles M Howe wrote:
> List,
>
> Real simple-minded question. I am sent a zipped document entitled B
> Days May07.doc+.zip. Yes, I have faithfully preserved the spaces. When
> I do ls -lt, that is what shows up (in red). But
>   unzip same
> doesn't work. What can I do?
>
> Charlie the Perpetual Newbie

unzip "B Days May07.doc+.zip"

Note the quotation marks. That tells the unzip program that the spaces 
are part of the file name.

Dan Arico

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