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It's hard to consider clear text to be the best option when you're trying to parse file names. What tool will properly generate your delimiters? How do you get your tool (or bash loop) to parse on that delimiter?

Filenames with spaces (or quotes, or unicode characters, or control characters, or...) have wreaked many a seemingly ideal program which needs to iterate over files.




I did not mean that it's best option. I meant current defacto command line minimum is cleartext.




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