Re: spaces in filenames should be a crime.

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 26/03/17 06:44 PM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> Note that 'ls' is an external command that doesn't do anything but list ..

Of course.  I worded that poorly.  I shouldn't have said: " our 'ls' ", 
but something like "we can leverage 'ls' to do the whole thing".
> (This is a fundamental difference with DOS/Windows batch files, where
> every command is expected to resolve patterns by itself.)

Yes, and how hard that was to get through my skull.
> A common alternative idiom is
> to prepend './' to the glob pattern so that every argument expanded from
> it also starts with './' (and hence never '-').
Cool.