But $(date) does return a string with spaces, at least on every system I've ever used. And what's so bad about the possibility of spaces in filenames? They're slightly inconvenient in a command line, but I haven't used a commuter this century that didn't support spaces in filenames.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Bro, literally re-read the comment you replied to. It has an example of what might happen.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Ok, I just reread it. I don't see what you think I'm missing. You mean an improperly written find command misbehaving? The fact that a different date format could prevent a bug from manifesting doesn't seem like much of an argument.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Spaces can exist in filenames. The only problem is that they have to be escaped. As the comment that you reread explained, cat hello world.txt would print the files hello and world.txt. If you wanted to print the file "hello world.txt" you'd either need to quote it (cat "hello world.txt") or escape the space (cat hello\ world.txt)

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 points 11 months ago

Oh, the horror!