Re: shell or fileutils commands and whitespaced filenames

[Michael <earlymorning@gmx.ch>]

Mathias Brodala <info@noctus.net>:
> OK. So where’s the problem? The tools mentioned can handle names with
> whitespaces (and even stranger characters) since … a long time ago.

It looks like a workaround to me.

I am  wondering for many years now when whitespace handling will be managed 
automatically, natively, just out of the box. 
Do i understand it right now, and it's still just not implemented ? 

I'm talking about this: chown -R me:you /deepfolder <enter>

Why doesn't it work this way, given that whitespaced filenames are quite common 
since many years especially in multimedia ?

My hope was that i simply missed to learn the easy way (for example, configuring the IFS?) 
I mean, file management is one of the most frequent jobs i can think of.









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