Re: idiot's qn to vi files

Ajai Khattri <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Jan 2003 00:56:21 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.guinness
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:52:32AM +0800, Daniel Tan wrote:

> Hi,
>     just a short idiot's question. How do you vi (edit) a file that has
> spaces in between the file name?

> eg. this is a log file.log

vi this\ is\ a\ log\ file.log

or

vi "this is a log file.log"

or

type the first few letters and hit TAB to let the shell complete the
filename...

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