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On 2015-12-20 12:41, Sam Edge wrote:
On 18/12/2015 13:06, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:and (of all things!) contain blanks,* rant mode on * What's wrong with blanks? The OS calls don't give a monkey's chuff so long as they're givennull-terminated C-strings. Tools like find, xargs etc. have options to cope.The biggest problem is that there are a lot of sloppily written shellscripts out there that don't properly quote substitutions or that use $*instead of "$@" or that use command substitution where they should beusing pipes and "xargs" and "read". That's the fault of the scripts, notthe OS/emulation layer. * rant mode off *
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