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1. Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode: (publicvoit@graz.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 14:04:43 UTC Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:

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   • LisPi
   • Tim Bray
   • Jonan Gallastegui

   @jonan_gallas @lispi314 @timbray True.

   However, as long as you don't control 100% of all file names yourself by renaming them, you certainly should learn how to write scripts which can deal with spaces and special characters anyway. YMMV.

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   • Jonan Gallastegui (jonan_gallas@mastodon.eus)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 14:04:44 UTC Jonan Gallastegui

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     • LisPi
     • Tim Bray

     @lispi314 @publicvoit @timbray
     Well, writing shell scripts,sometimes a space can bite you. 🥴

   • LisPi (lispi314@mastodon.top)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 14:04:46 UTC LisPi

     • Tim Bray

     @publicvoit @timbray I bothered with not spacing right up until I noticed that at some point tab-completion had become a thing... like two decades ago (that I noticed, not sure if it became such earlier).

     I promptly stopped caring after that. I eventually picked-up #Emacs (and more specificaly #dired) which made it even less of an issue and also covered weird/corrupt characters that most shells don't handle properly.