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mv *.jpg is complete bullshit. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 8 months ago by mindbleach@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@sh.itjust.works

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'Well it's only passing mv a list of--' yeah yeah yeah, I know, and that's why I'm calling bullshit. It should be massively harder to execute filenames. Even if 1970s decisions make that the eternal hideous default: the lack of any idiot-proof standard workaround is incomprehensible.

StackOverflow's full of competing one-liners and people pointing out how each one is considered harmful. The least-skeezy options use exec. That sentence should make anyone recoil in horror.

This is not a filename problem. This is a tool problem. If a single printable character is going to silently expand into a list of names, then for god's sake, having it put each name in quotes should be fucking trivial.

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[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I mean with * where you have no control of the order of the files and you never explicitly say which files are being moved. "yeah, just rename files into other files, I don't fucking care lol" is what your command does