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= Basic Linux tips for filenames =

* Linux does not deal well with spaces in filenames
* Expect problems when transferring files from Windows.
* Everything is case sensitive
* In genomics its common to use underscores and add useful (meta) information.
* However this can make the filenames quite long.

* To reference filenames with spaces in them, you need to enclose the entire filename in quotation marks so that Linux understands that the space is part of one single name.
* Alternatively, you can "escape" the space using a backslash. For example, if I have a file called my document Linux will see this as two words, "my" and "document".

But you could write either of the following to make it understand you mean a single file:
"my document"
my\ document

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