[dundee] BashPitfalls

[Robert Ladyman]

> There is now reason to use a spaces for a file name, is there an
> reason to use other
> characters than A-Z0-9_ for a file name?
> 
> Anyway, you should not call a piece of code program, which isn't able
> to process a ASCII
> character. In circumstance you have to port your program to another
> operation system such as Windows, you have to avoid this or is will be
> crashing. There are directories like "Documents and Settings", which
> contain spaces.
> 
> I take the view, both ways are bad. Spaces in file names make working
> with the command line
> much complicated and programs which ignore spaces are not reliable in
> their behaviour.
> 

I_cannot_understand_the_problem:_why_shouldn't_we_humans_be_forced_to_adapt_to_computer_systems_rather_than_the_other_way_round?

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