Yes, really! Next, I'll be covering uses of the 'cd' and 'pwd' commands. Next week is reserved for advanced topics such as the 'find' command....;-) -Mark -- Mark J. Bobak Senior Oracle Architect ProQuest Information & Learning Ours is the age that is proud of machines that can think and suspicious of men who try to. --H. Mumford Jones, 1892-1980 -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Closson [mailto:kevinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 3:55 PM To: Oracle-L Freelists Cc: list42@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: HAR HAR HAR Linux Oracle guys sit too close to Windows Oracle Guys oh really >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Bobak, Mark [mailto:Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] >>>Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 12:54 PM >>>To: gorbyx@xxxxxxxxx; kevinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>Cc: list42@xxxxxxxxxxxx; Oracle-L Freelists >>>Subject: RE: HAR HAR HAR Linux Oracle guys sit too close to Windows >>>Oracle Guys >>> >>>You can also escape each space with a '\' in lieu of using quotes: >>>$ touch space\ in\ the\ name >>>$ ls -l space* >>>-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 0 Jun 9 15:52 space -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l