@brettm I recently went through a folder and changed all the spaces to underscores because I didn't feel like trying to work around spaces not playing nicely with the wildcard command in Make

@brettm im so <uses more then one *nix> that i still loath and resent people who do.

@jellyfriend @brettm resent the bad tooling instead

@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org Despite file systems supporting it trivially there are still many good reasons to avoid it.

For example using any Bash command on a file that has whitespace in the filename you have to escape the whitespace.

For example for deleting a file instead of just rm filename you have to either rm "file name" or rm file\ name, which is annoying to type and error prone so I prefer to just avoid it.

@brettm isn't this just normal? why would I put spaces in a file name?

@0x6e6174 @brettm to fuck up poorly written shell scripts and build systems

@kimapr @0x6e6174 @brettm Microsoft intentionally made the place to install programs to "Program Files", to force programmers to deal with spaces in file paths.

@jernej__s @kimapr @0x6e6174 @brettm not true! https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20131119-00/?p=2623