If you're like me and every now and then are forced to do something on the command line, you may come across a situation where you need to do something to a file that has a space in it. This is problematic on the command line as spaces indicate separation between different commands.
I came across this tonight when trying to transcode an mp4 file to an avi file so I could watch it on my hopeless Panasonic LCD which apparently only understands one video format. Use single quotes around the filename and extension.
mencoder 'Jubbly Bits.mp4' -oac pcm -ovc copy -o 'Jubbly Bits.avi'
