Oil fixes this problem with QSN: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/10/osh-features.html#safe-processing-of-user-supplied-data-like-filenames http://www.oilshell

Oil fixes this problem with QSN: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/10/osh-features.html#safe-processing-of-user-supplied-data-like-filenames http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/10/osh-features.html#safe-... You can have newlines in filenames, but you can also pass binary data with \0 if you want (it's 8 bit clean). Or you can use read -0 for a NUL delimiter, and eventually length-prefixed blobs with netstrings. The way I now think of it is that Oil should have all 3 solutions to "the framing problem" in networking: delimiting, escaping, and length prefixing. So you can convert from one regime to the other by using shell.