barbara@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml · 4 months agowhy does noone inprove bash such that you can write a normal foor loop with whitespace in file names?message-squaremessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareeshep@social.trom.tflinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-24 months ago@barbara Is bash itself not already an improvement on ““the basic stuff””? …and whitespace in filenames is simply unacceptable, and should not be encouraged. 😆 What’s wrong with the method we’ve been usin forever of working with dumbly named files? Just "enclose em", or use\ an\ escape\ char in em.
minus-squareDigitalDruid@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-24 months agoyes bash is the Bourne-Again Shell, the basic stuff would have to be sh, the Bourne Shell, developed in 1979 for UNIX 7 and still in use today. both written by the legend Steven Bourne UNIX 1-6 had the Ken Thompson Shell which I’ve never used but assume is similar.
@barbara Is
bashitself not already an improvement on ““the basic stuff””?…and whitespace in filenames is simply unacceptable, and should not be encouraged. 😆
What’s wrong with the method we’ve been usin forever of working with dumbly named files? Just
"enclose em", oruse\ an\ escape\ charin em.yes bash is the Bourne-Again Shell, the basic stuff would have to be sh, the Bourne Shell, developed in 1979 for UNIX 7 and still in use today.
both written by the legend Steven Bourne
UNIX 1-6 had the Ken Thompson Shell which I’ve never used but assume is similar.