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		atoav on June 20, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Filenames and pathnames in shell: How to do it cor... IMO someone made the wrong trade-offs there. Shell scrips mainly deal with text output of different programs, so escaping and quoting should be as simple as possible.

meinheld111 on June 20, 2023 [–]

Messing with IFS can also solve a lot of problems

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