DeepSpeech.py path must be in "" to allow spaces

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Running ubuntu 18.04.
DeepSpeech.py does not accept any path given as an argument that contains space without the path is encapsulated with “”, i.e. /www Temp downloads/xx.csv must be written as “/www Temp downloads/xx.csv”.

This might be obvious to some, but it can be a pain to fix when dealing with a bunch of different issues at the same time.

Windows will do the same thing, so it is not ubuntu 18.04 specific.

perhaps the fix would be as simple as writing a few words or simply add it to the example in https://deepspeech.readthedocs.io/en/v0.9.2/TRAINING.html#transfer-learning-new-alphabet i.e. change path/to/release-checkpoint/folder to “path/to/release checkpoint/folder”

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Thanks for writing the post. I’ll think about it how we can reflect that in the docs. But blanks in paths has always been a cause of joy in programming. Especially with windows :slight_smile:

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please share examples of such usages, I feel like it’s more a shell-level issue than a deepspeech one.

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@soerengustenhoff - What about if you escape the spaces, eg with a “\” as is usual on Unix-like systems?

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Hi guyes.

I will try both escaping the spaces with \ and post the actual error that happens when the “” is left out.

but i do believe that lissyx is right, in this most likely being a shell issue.
i do believe the exact same thing will happen in windows. ( just an example, i know we cant train in windows).

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So I’m sorry, but this is not something we can fix.

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no, i am thinking the same.

BUT, now it is atleast in the discourse, and if others run into this “issue” then there is an easy fix for it :slight_smile:

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