On: Shell Style Guide

[enriquto]

> One of the constraints I impose is that spaces in pathnames should always be handled correctly;

I tend to do the exact opposite. If a filename has spaces in it, i like my script to fail spectacularly while insulting the user (who is typically me....)

Filenames are variable names. It makes no sense to allow spaces in them.

[lambda → enriquto]

I need to deal with end user data a lot; which frequently has spaces in it.