Re: spaces in filenames should be a crime.

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29/03/17 08:21 AM, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 07:50:34 -0700
> Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> (Obviously this is a pointless discussion, but while I'm waiting for
> things to compile...)
Is the design philosophy of software pointless?
> The only thing missing by default is files beginning "." (that's the
> D).  The "." and the "om[1]" are indeed subtracting things.
>
> By demanding
Not demanding, rather musing on the paradigm.

> that globbing matches files beginning with "." by default,
> you've just removed one of the earliest safety features built into
> shells, so that people are condemned to have their initialisation files
> show up with every glob.  It happens that most people don't consider
> this "robust" for their purposes.  But if you're happy to sacrifice
> usability. you can set the option GLOB_DOTS, and it works the way
> you want.
>
> pws
I guess it's both -- D and N are includers and '.om ' are excluders.  
Anyway, sorry, just dreaming out loud.  Probably can't be a dogmatic 
answer one way or the other.  Not bitching.