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Re:CLI: Improved by collinmanderson on Friday August 31, 2018 @07:33AM (#17884639)
...As long as you don’t have spaces in file names.

I’d like to see something like cvs used more, where it can handle the edge cases without breaking, but still doesn’t need a translation step

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Re:CLI: Improved by enriquto on Friday August 31, 2018 @09:21AM (#17885318)
is there any filesystem that does not enable spaces in filenames? I find the idea ridiculous. Would you design a programming language that allowed spaces in its variable names? Because that is the same level of atrocity.
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Re:CLI: Improved by nitrogen on Friday August 31, 2018 @01:15PM (#17887238)
Some languages allow spaces in variable names by using quotation. To some extent Ruby, Kotlin, and SQL come to mind.
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Re:CLI: Improved by collinmanderson on Saturday September 01, 2018 @08:31AM (#17891537)
Yes, but filenames are not variable names, they're values, and they often break plain text piping
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Re:CLI: Improved by enriquto on Saturday September 01, 2018 @10:02AM (#17891877)
This is not the unix philosophy. Filenames are indeed variable names. The values are the contents of the file.
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