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my fantasy is they design a shell language where it's impossible to write anything that fails if there are spaces in filenames

• hashhar 9y ago
  That's much better than what the parent wants. Almost always whenever I write any script almost 25% of the time is spent ensuring it doesn't break due to spaces or special unescaped characters.
  • frou_dh 9y ago
    You already have that. Just write your script in one of the countless sane languages that are #!-able.
    • greggman 9y ago
      until your script needs to launch/spawn another app/script/command/program.
      • frou_dh 9y ago
        Doesn't necessarily have to be a major hassle. With my homemade Lisp, here's a quick and dirty shorthand for running external programs (ultimately boiling down to fork+exec): (extend-parser "!" (mac (cmd) `(apply run (map to-string ',cmd)))) !(sed "s/foo/bar/" README)