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...As long as you don’t have spaces in file names. I’d like to see something like cvs used more, where it can handle the edge cases without breaking, but still
by collinmanderson 8y ago
...As long as you don’t have spaces in file names.
I’d like to see something like cvs used more, where it can handle the edge cases without breaking, but still doesn’t need a translation step
- enriquto 8y agois there any filesystem that does not enable spaces in filenames? I find the idea ridiculous. Would you design a programming language that allowed spaces in its variable names? Because that is the same level of atrocity.
- nitrogen 8y agoSome languages allow spaces in variable names by using quotation. To some extent Ruby, Kotlin, and SQL come to mind.
- collinmanderson 8y agoYes, but filenames are not variable names, they're values, and they often break plain text piping
- enriquto 8y agoThis is not the unix philosophy. Filenames are indeed variable names. The values are the contents of the file.