Null-terminated mode: turns out tons of tools have these: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/3164#issuecomment-354600352 https://github.com/fish-sh

Null-terminated mode: turns out tons of tools have these: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/3164#issuecomment-354600352 https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/3164#issueco... But yeah, 2nd "standard" hurts compositionality. Default posix/bash splitting of output by spaces is very big-prone and having to type "$array[@]" all over the place is annoying. But splitting by lines is much saner. Now newlines in file names, that's just evil and should be outlawed at OS level. I think OSX did this (?) In bash life can be easier by setting IFS (Google "bash strict mode" though I have reservations about the IFS part). But really, its easy to fix in a non-posix shell. Fish splits by lines and interpolates variables as arrays by default.