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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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