You would think that this would be common-sense. In 2010, David Wheeler (author of the featured article) proposed to the Austin Group that control characters –

You would think that this would be common-sense. In 2010, David Wheeler (author of the featured article) proposed to the Austin Group that control characters – in particular newline (and TAB and ESC) – be forbidden in filenames: https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=251 https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=251 Unfortunately, it has yet to be implemented. :( I also note that in 2016 the authors of GNU coreutils took a lot of flak when they changed the default behaviour of ls to quote filenames with special characters¹². Personally, I’d be having stern words with anyone that produced path names with anything funkier than a space character. ¹ https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/quotes.html https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/quotes.html ² https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/258691 https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/258691