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[–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 months ago (5 children)

smells like skill issue tbh

tools which cant handle being installed/run on directories with spaces are so annoying

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 8 points 2 months ago

tools which cant handle being installed/run on directories with spaces are unacceptably common

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[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 7 points 2 months ago

“_” to the rescue

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago

agreed, "still worth it"

I do, however, tend to keep spaces out of my folder names so i can just use quotes at the end.

/Images/Halloween/Projections/"Creepy Crawlies.mp4"

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

That's what backslash-tab is for

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago

at least you/arent/using\ linux

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

whitespaceIsTheEnemy

[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Computers should just know when I want a space to be part of a file name, and when I want them to be argument separators. No more escaping or quoting.

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