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On 2015-12-20 13:18, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec 20 12:50, incog wrote:
>> On 2015-12-20 12:41, Sam Edge wrote:
>> >On 18/12/2015 13:06, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
>> >>and (of all things!) contain blanks,
>> >
>> >* rant mode on *
>> >
>> >What's wrong with blanks?
>> >
>> >The OS calls don't give a monkey's chuff so long as they're given
>> >null-terminated C-strings. Tools like find, xargs etc. have options to
>> >cope.
>> >
>> >The biggest problem is that there are a lot of sloppily written shell
>> >scripts out there that don't properly quote substitutions or that use $*
>> >instead of "$@" or that use command substitution where they should be
>> >using pipes and "xargs" and "read". That's the fault of the scripts, not
>> >the OS/emulation layer.
>> >
>> >* rant mode off *
>> 
>> Oh ... you know, I understand Rainer's sentiment ...
>> 
>> https://www.cygwin.com/ starts with:
>> 
>> CYGWIN
>> 
>> Get that ___Linux___ feeling - on Windows
> 
> Dunno about you, but I have lots of files with spaces in them on Linux,
> especially files connected with GUI stuff, themes, etc.

:-) Oh dear, must be my age ... I never create files with spaces in them
... I like to keep things simple, just like the guys that created Unix.

(sorry, could not stop myself :-)))

Henri

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