[olpc-community-support] adult newby questions

[mburns]

(guessing)..

Because you are enter commands into the Terminal, you are having a shell program (in this case, bash) interpret the words you type and execute them on the system, directly, instead of through sugar and activity frameworks.

The $NAME, then, is probably getting broken up on the middle space. If you quote the name, "Michael Burns" it might parse it correctly.