Spaces in the file names. Brilliant.
Ranks right up there with Drive letters, and maintaining DOS compatibility.
But I digress.
I was looking into some CRS (clusterware, Compaq portable clusterware, whatever they call it) logs and found one on 10gR2 linux with spaces in the pathname…check it out
funny:
tmr6s15:/opt/oracle/crs # cd ./log/tmr6s15/racg/ tmr6s15:/opt/oracle/crs/log/tmr6s15/racg # ls -la total 65 drwxrwxrwx 7 oracle dba 552 Jun 9 12:01 . drwxr-xr-t 8 root dba 224 Jun 8 13:23 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 214 Jun 8 17:23 imonSP2-0640: Not connected.log -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 501 Jun 8 17:23 imon_SP2-0640: Not connected.log -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 454 Jun 8 17:23 imon_junk46.log -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 0 Jun 8 14:17 imonjunk46.log -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 15873 Jun 8 17:30 mdb.log -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 12896 Jun 8 17:22 ora.tmr6s15.LISTENER1.lsnr.log -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 4389 Jun 9 12:01 ora.tmr6s15.ons.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 380 Jun 9 12:01 ora.tmr6s16.vip.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 180 Jun 9 12:01 ora.tmr6s17.vip.log drwxrwxrwx 2 oracle dba 48 Jun 8 13:23 racgeut drwxrwxrwx 2 oracle dba 48 Jun 8 13:23 racgevtf drwxrwxrwx 2 oracle dba 48 Jun 8 14:17 racgimon drwxrwxrwx 2 oracle dba 48 Jun 8 13:23 racgmain drwxrwxrwx 2 oracle dba 48 Jun 8 14:19 racgmdb -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 645 Jun 8 17:33 tkpcr42.log tmr6s15:/opt/oracle/crs/log/tmr6s15/racg # more imonSP2-0640: Not connected.log imonSP2-0640:: No such file or directory Not: No such file or directory connected.log: No such file or directory
-- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist