> It has its drawbacks, too. Having a file named -rf in your home directory 
> leads to problems, for example.  Before shells properly escaped 
> everything, files with spaces in the names were very problematic as well.

Took me a long time to figure out the CAD system on our Unix box was 
crashing because the path name had a space in it, not because the file was 
corrupt somehow...

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