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1. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.ourcoffs.org.au)'s status on Saturday, 01-Oct-2016 05:45:43 UTC Matthew Davidson
   I still purge punctuation from my filenames on the premise that you never know when you may have to use a #Windows computer. Eagerly anticipating the day when I know I will never have to use a Windows computer.
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   • kat (kat@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 01-Oct-2016 08:57:19 UTC kat

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     @mjd someone I work with insists on putting & in filenames
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   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 01-Oct-2016 14:32:29 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

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     @mjd I purge whitespace from my filenames on my premise that I might want to run them through `make` at some point.
   • Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Saturday, 01-Oct-2016 17:29:00 UTC Mike Gerwitz

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     • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
     @clacke @mjd As long as the filename is escaped/quoted, GNU Make shouldn't have any issues if a filename contains spaces.
     
     It's the fury of users of Unix-like operating systems that you have to worry about. ;)
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   • Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer@sn.jonkman.ca)'s status on Saturday, 01-Oct-2016 18:00:26 UTC Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca

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     UpperCamelCase, lowerCamelCase, snake_case
   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Sunday, 02-Oct-2016 06:40:31 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

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     • Mike Gerwitz
     @mikegerwitz @mjd Quoting doesn't always help. Bash and Python have arrays, so they're fine, but Make *will* mangle filenames at some point.
   • Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Sunday, 02-Oct-2016 16:48:59 UTC Mike Gerwitz

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     • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
     @clacke I'm sorry, I was narrowly thinking of shell in targets. I guess Make doesn't handle spaces well on its own:
     
     http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9838384/can-gnu-make-handle-filenames-with-spaces
     
     I guess I never realized because I've never had to deal with filenames with spaces! So it seems that you are correct.
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