>control characters in filenames I don't understand how this doesn't affect non-shell languages, it's not the shell that interprets these (unless were talking

>control characters in filenames I don't understand how this doesn't affect non-shell languages, it's not the shell that interprets these (unless were talking about different things) > spaces in filenames can cause problems: irrelevant to non-shell languages Again, this is a format/protocol problem not a language problem. A lot of formats use spaces as delimiters and if you put delimiters in the filename you're going to have to escape it.