I am so very glad that someone wrote this issue up in detail. The fact that the Unix filesystem makes it extremely difficult to write correct scripts and to iss

I am so very glad that someone wrote this issue up in detail. The fact that the Unix filesystem makes it extremely difficult to write correct scripts and to issue non-problematic commands at the shell is Unix's biggest flaw. The whole point of Unix, and the reason that it was so revolutionary, was to empower the easy composition of complex tasks via scripts and command line invocations. The “negative freedom" implemented by the filesystem has undermined the "positive freedom" of Unix's original intent. The kernel hackers' response to this, back in the day, was typically, "Program in C instead." It was a shame that the kernel hackers didn't understand Unix!