Off Topic - Bash Question

[Filippos Klironomos]

> 
> How do you write the $(...) statement to allow for filenames containing
> spaces. I've tried various things ("...", '...', \"...\", \'...\',
> IFS='\n', etc) and none worked. I can't seem to get the syntax right.
> 

fileName="some file name with spaces"
md5sum=`md5sum "$fileName"`

this should do it.