# from Rene Schickbauer
# on Wednesday 24 February 2010 01:44:

>Files with spaces are generally a BAD idea.

They can be inconvenient, especially in shell hackery.

>For example, every time you call an external program, you have quote
> the arguments. ... You can  call `rm -f $fname`; right?

Which is why we don't use backticks to call system('rm', '-f', $fname), 
but we also have unlink() for this. :-D

--Eric
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a
desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
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