‘Well it’s only passing mv a list of–’ yeah yeah yeah, I know, and that’s why I’m calling bullshit. It should be massively harder to execute filenames. Even if 1970s decisions make that the eternal hideous default: the lack of any idiot-proof standard workaround is incomprehensible.

StackOverflow’s full of competing one-liners and people pointing out how each one is considered harmful. The least-skeezy options use exec. That sentence should make anyone recoil in horror.

This is not a filename problem. This is a tool problem. If a single printable character is going to silently expand into a list of names, then for god’s sake, having it put each name in quotes should be fucking trivial.

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    4 months ago

    Okay, I pretty much agree with you in theory, but in practice you’re basically describing PowerShell which I just cannot. :P

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      4 months ago

      LOL. Now I feel dirty.

      To be fair, there’s a lot that PowerShell does much better than Bash and similar shells. Piping tables as tables is rad.