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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them
Date: Wed, 7 May 2025 21:44:16 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 7 May 2025 11:07:04 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> I had finally figured out that without the shell there *is* no
> command line.

We still say “command line” rather than “command array”.

The key thing is that the command arguments are passed to the invoked 
program as is, without any interpretation by some intermediate shell.