As the article already points out, not using the shell (or fixing the shell) would fix many of the problems with spaces and newlines in filenames but there are

As the article already points out, not using the shell (or fixing the shell) would fix many of the problems with spaces and newlines in filenames but there are still others that are more fundamental. For example: * Filenames starting with hyphens can get parsed as command line options * Filenames containing control sequences cause the terminal to misbehave if they are printed to the screen * Filenames containing newlines can't be easily included in all sorts of line-by-line file formats. Finally, as the article also points out, the shell is not going away anytime soon. Getting rid of it is not the easy way out.