3 ms·
It sounds like perhaps in the 1980s though, this may have been less true?
by xp84 3y ago
It sounds like perhaps in the 1980s though, this may have been less true?
- dgacmu 3y agoCould be. I'm definitely a 90s-and-later unix kid. I wonder when -0 was added to `find` Edit: The quote is actually from the Unix haters handbook, published in 1994. I don't remember too many horrors with spaces in filenames from back then, but, er, it's been a while. find | xargs was a known problem case but that's why it got -0. Most of the rest was the familiar horrors of shell scripting.
- kps 3y agoIt was equally true if you exclude things that couldn't work, like `xargs` without `-0`, but people were less careful about quoting. `shellcheck` didn't exist until 2012 (going by its copyright notice).