clipka wrote:
> On unix, where even now it is still quite common to do stuff in some 
> command line shell, it is pretty uncommon to put blanks in filenames, 
> because it would be a hassle to even "cd" there.

That used to be true back in the 1.x days of Linux (like, 10 years ago), but 
nowadays I haven't had much problem with spaces in file names, except in 
lazy scripts I've written myself using "$@" and such. (And that's more 
because it's easier for me to skip the one-line script than to look up the 
proper quoting mechanism to get that in.)

Bash command-line completion, for example, will put quotes around names with 
spaces in them.  But yes, this wasn't always common, even long after Mac and 
Windows commonly used spaces in names.

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