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>I'd rather talk about how file names with spaces in them break things

Not really a Unix thing, but some tools (rather common even) are indeed very broken when it comes to certain types of file names. However...

>how hard it is do delete a file named "-"

While it's certainly a corner case of sorts, if you call that task hard, I wonder how you fare with using more complex software, like a web browser...

parent exprA 9 years ago

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