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I gave up trying to explain to normal people why, when we interchange documents, the names of the files I send back to them never have any spaces in them.

@timbray I don't get it.

I avoided spaces and used 7 Bit ASCII myself for many years.

Since probably a decade, I don't see any issue with spaces. I even started to embrace German Umlaute like äöü or ß without noticing any issue. Even zsh completion is working perfectly fine with those characters. 🤷

@publicvoit @timbray for $f in *.ext; do something $f | somethingelse > … mother [expletive] space [expletive] you.

@timbray @ndw

Easy workaround:
find -print0 | xargs -0

No issue at my side as well.

FYI: Local file management is somewhat my passion and fetish since years 😉 karl-voit.at/tags/pim/

public voit - Web-page of Karl Voit · pimTag page for tag pim
Jack Baty

@publicvoit @timbray Regardless of the tooling or how I'll use them, file names with spaces look broken to me and I don't know if I'll ever get over it.

@jbaty @publicvoit @timbray Make tab complete in bash a pain in the neck. I despise them.