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Date:      Fri, 16 Oct 2020 20:10:20 +0530
From:      Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sh scripting question
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On 2020-10-16 18:49, Polytropon wrote:
> Stupid people do stupid things. Stupidly programmed programs
> do stupid things to filenames, too. Scripts usually do not
> care. They typically (!) are not limited to a subset of valid
> filenames, they work on_all_  filenames.

The best way to let stupid people realize that their file names are 
stupid is to let their shell scripts fly off the handle.

Regards,
Manish Jain



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