Re: How to handle whitespace in filenames ???

["Michael D. Schleif" <mds@helices.org>]

Craig Dickson wrote:
> 
> Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> 
> > Wrong. There's a reason why people with half a clue don't put
> > spaces in paths, and inadequacy of tools is not it. Unless your
> > computer can read minds, it has no way of telling when the
> > whitespace's supposed to be input separator, and when it's just
> > a part of filename.
> 
> Oh, come on. Unix shells already have rules for that. You escape the
> space, or put the full name in quotes. The problem is that many Unix
> tools don't correctly handle filenames with spaces.

Writing strictly from the perspective of a *nix user, please, do not
foist that one on me!

Again, "Perhaps, you ought to ``correct'' the tools, then impose
arbitrary complexity ???"

What do you think?

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