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No good has ever come from allowing BEL and DEL as part of filenames. I'm with David Wheeler: https://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html
by quotemstr 10y ago
No good has ever come from allowing BEL and DEL as part of filenames.
I'm with David Wheeler: https://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html https://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames....
We need to limit filenames for the good of the entire system and the whole community. Filenames as byte strings may sound good, but nobody ever thinks of the costs and the scant benefits.
- YSFEJ4SWJUVU6 10y agoI disagree completely. What we need is to allow even slashes in the file names – not restrict (for what an end user may feel arbitrarily) even more writeable characters off file names, just so we can avoid fixing our replacing our tools or writing one line more in a shell script.
- coldtea 10y agoAny solution you come up with must work with replacing existing software piecemeal, or it's no solution.