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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them
Date: Wed, 7 May 2025 08:14:57 -0700
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On Wed, 7 May 2025 12:12:51 +0200
"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

> > Using almost any other language than shell, on the other hand,
> > makes the problem go away.  
> 
> Except if you hardcode a filename inside a C program, for instance.
> You still have to escape the quotes.

There's no ultimate solution to *that* problem, though - any system for
representing a delimited sequence of tokens where the delimiter itself
is a valid token is gonna run into this at *some* point. (It's escape
characters all the way down...)