[dundee] BashPitfalls

[Kevin]

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On 10 February 2011 11:02, azmodie <azmodie at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> Because\ the\ resaponse\ would\ look\ like\ this\ !
>
> azmodie
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