[dundee] BashPitfalls

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On 10 February 2011 08:59, Robert Ladyman <it at file-away.co.uk> wrote:
>> 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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