Warp wrote:
> Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailisthebestcom> wrote:
>> 1. If the file is called -, you're calling for trouble anyway.
> 
>> 2. Whoever passes a filename to your script should be using the ./- thing.
> 
>   Many shellscripts break with file names with spaces in them. 

Actually, it's worse. There are surprisingly few utilities that don't 
break on *any* possible file name.

Here's a contest. Given the directory /tmp/stuff, delete all the files 
in that directory that end with ".tmp".

Let's see how many iterations it takes to get actually right.

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          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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