The biggest pain comes from untarring some source code and trying to build it while in ~/My Tools Directory. Spaces in directories that scupper build code that

The biggest pain comes from untarring some source code and trying to build it while in ~/My Tools Directory. Spaces in directories that scupper build code that isn’t expecting them is the fatal mixing of worlds. In most other cases I’ve never really had a problem with “this is a place where spaces are ok” (e.g. notes, documents, photos) and “this is a place where they are not ok” — usually in parts of my filesystem where I’m developing code. It’s fine to make simplifying assumptions if it’s your own code. Command history aside, most one liners we type at the shell are literally throwaways. I think I was clear that they aren’t the only category of program one writes and that, traditionally on Unix systems, the counterpart to sh was C.