i y'all just started using fish shell, you'd have proper shell completions and argument splitting that doesn't care about spaces in file names
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Can't relate. I use shell all the time, and I always use spaces in file paths, especially to make sure scripts I make still work then
Mv /home/"$USER"/Downloads /home/"$USER"/downloads
capital letters.
I love emoji filenames
The number of keystrokes needed to type an underscore is the same that you need to type backslash space, so I don't see how underscores are in improvement
End each word with a . Pretty simple. I just realized lemmy wont show a forward slash.
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