Skip Navigation

hapidjus
hapidjus @ hapidjus @mastodon.social
Posts
0
Comments
5
Joined
1 yr. ago

why does noone inprove bash such that you can write a normal foor loop with whitespace in file names?

Jump

  • How it looks is irrelevant to how the system handles it

    Then IMO it shouldn't matter that there is a space in it. I disagree with your viewpoints and I think if someone wants a space or punctuation in their filename, they should be able to do that without problems.

    • why does noone inprove bash such that you can write a normal foor loop with whitespace in file names?

    Jump

  • @TigrisMorte I don't think camel case would make sense for files such as books, music or movies when you want the name to look proper.

    • How to change password in Ubuntu

    Jump

  • @Agility0971 Why didn't passwd tell you the regular user password wasn't actually changed? Isn't that a much bigger issue?

    • how to create a file and make it executable in one command?

    Jump

    • why does noone inprove bash such that you can write a normal foor loop with whitespace in file names?

    Jump

  • @TigrisMorte Why not? I don't understand the hate with using valid filename characters in filenames. If anything I would argue it makes detecting non-conformant code easier... you wouldn't want a program to skip processing a file because it has the letter Z in it would you?

    • why does noone inprove bash such that you can write a normal foor loop with whitespace in file names?

    Jump

  • @kbal Don't you mean IFS=$'\\n' ?