On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 7:30 AM, Nick <suckless-...@njw.me.uk> wrote: > I am against writing scripts that can deal with filenames with > newlines. Fuck such filenames. If you have to deal with them, shell > scripting is a terrible technology to use.
I too think newlines in filenames is stupid. I never put newlines in my filenames. But I don't know if someone who uses a script I release will have newlines in their filenames. It's not difficult to write scripts that can handle all legal filenames. Also don't forget files that start with -, or have * in the name or a whole bunch of others. I have an evilfiles directory I run scripts in to test sometimes. It'll scare you. (I tried to link to the directory on bitbucket, but it seems their code can't handle it, I find that highly amusing)
