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Subject: Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 08:39:21 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 31 Aug 2024 09:27:44 +0100
Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> gabbled:
>gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) writes:
>>     2) Spaces in filenames are pretty much a necessity from the end-user
>> 	POV (but see below).  Yes, it makes things hard for us on the admin
>> 	side of the game.
>
>I think the thing that makes it hard is not the spaces as such, but the
>tooling that makes it inconvenient to handle them, which primarily means
>Bourne shell parsing rules. The problem basically ceases to exist once
>you’re outside the shell ecosystem.
>
>The rest of Unix has evolved substantially since the 1970s but shell is
>still stuck in this particular trap. It’s like we’re still making making
>arrowheads out of flint but everything else from steel.
>

When parsing is based around words on a line how else exactly would you expect 
it to be done? Every language tokenises based in seperators so unless you 
expect the shell to automagically figure out when a filename ends and the next 
part of the command begins then I would suggest using quotes is a solution 
thats worked for decades and works fine.