I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
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Re: I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
#2Honestly, this still causes a lot of problems with some Software. I've had friends asking for help with obscure errors that were ultimately caused by the files they were using being on a path that contains a space or special character.
Re: I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
#3I never put spaces, and won't go over 32 characters, preferably less than than 16. even when sending a file to my grand mom. that's how deep rooted the trauma is. and yes, it remains an issue with some parsers and what not.
Re: I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
#4ascii, no spaces for me
i still get issues with old one-off scripts, that still work, and I forgot to properly quote stuff... plus the urls are pain in the ass with the %20;s.
Re: I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
#5Slightly off topic but I find myself stuck at being "please for the love of god don't use spaces in git branch names" old. Anno dazumal this might not even have been an issue and I'm just cargo culting.
Re: I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
#6Spaces breaking tab completion is still an issue, so, yeah.
ETA: not broken in a technical sense, but having to escape them isn't the best experience. So it's just easier for me to avoid spaces.
Re: I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
#7I have had a huge music library on my RAID, and naturally it had a lot of spaces, and non-ASCII, in the file names.
It's cumbersome-ish, but can be made to work.
Then there's shell injection via files containing a newline character in their name...
Re: I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
#8I must be nightmare customer, because I've always been exploiting my ability to use filenames in full UTF-8. I'm that guy that sends .pdf to your website.
Re: I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
#9I saw this and felt old, but then the comments in here made me realize that the fear\ is%20real.
Re: I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
#10ascii, no spaces for me i still get issues with old one-off scripts, that still work, and I forgot to properly quote stuff... plus the urls are pain in the ass with the %20;s.
[0-9A-Za-z_-]+ for me.