Re: Gnu findutils

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On 4-mrt-04, at 17:30, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:

> If people shouldn't use spaces in filenames, don't let them.
>

I distinctly remember a problem with an update shell script from Apple 
for an early Mac OS X version that would wipe your disk because the 
script didn't cope with spaces in file names, and whoever developed it 
didn't have his primary disk called "Macintosh HD" like, say, close to 
every other mac in existence, so he never ran into it.

[insert appropiate quality testing procedures hate rant here]

Now *that* was fun. But the finger pointing was at the shell script in 
question, not at the utilities it used. And it should be.

-John

• Darrell Fuhriman 16:30 on 04 Mar 2004
  • John Sinteur 16:43 on 04 Mar 2004
• peter (Peter da Silva) 16:38 on 04 Mar 2004
  • David Cantrell 23:58 on 04 Mar 2004
    • peter (Peter da Silva) 00:01 on 05 Mar 2004
    • Jonathan Stowe 16:45 on 05 Mar 2004

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