On 20/09/13 09:15, Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Russell Coker (russell@coker.com.au):
In regard to David's question, files with spaces cause needless pain, I'll just rename them.
It's also useful to darwinate the people who create them.
That’s solving the problem at the wrong layer. As long as keyboards have space bars, people will attempt to create files with spaces in their filenames. If filenames are unacceptable, we should design our kernels and filesystems not to accept them. Good luck with that. (tm) Or, we could all just not be dicks, accept the fact that some filenames have spaces (because, shock horror, people *like* spaces), and deal with it like proper engineers should. Yeah, some problems are hard. I get that. That doesn’t impact on what should/shouldn’t be solved.