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Question of where the pain goes, I guess. In unix, having to deal with shell escaping when doing routine tasks is super annoying -- URLs with question marks and
by andrewla 2y ago
Question of where the pain goes, I guess. In unix, having to deal with shell escaping when doing routine tasks is super annoying -- URLs with question marks and ampersands screwing everything up, and simple expansions (like the `cp *` example above) causing confusing.
Yes, Windows resolution and glob expansion can be inconsistent, but it usually isn't, but Unix makes you eat the cruft every time you use it. And you still get tools like ImageMagick that have strange ad hoc syntax for wildcard because they can't use the standard wildcarding, or even ancient tools like find that force you to do all sorts of stupid shit to be compatible with globbing.