barbara@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml · 7 months agowhy does noone inprove bash such that you can write a normal foor loop with whitespace in file names?message-squaremessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down117file-text
arrow-up114arrow-down1message-squarewhy does noone inprove bash such that you can write a normal foor loop with whitespace in file names?barbara@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml · 7 months agomessage-square41fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareeshep@social.trom.tflinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down2·edit-27 months ago@barbara Is bash itself not already an improvement on ““the basic stuff””? …and whitespace in filenames is simply unacceptable, and should not be encouraged. 😆 What’s wrong with the method we’ve been usin forever of working with dumbly named files? Just "enclose em", or use\ an\ escape\ char in em.
@barbara Is
bashitself not already an improvement on ““the basic stuff””?…and whitespace in filenames is simply unacceptable, and should not be encouraged. 😆
What’s wrong with the method we’ve been usin forever of working with dumbly named files? Just
"enclose em", oruse\ an\ escape\ charin em.deleted by creator