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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I try to just always put files names or paths into quotes in CLI or tie it to a variable in programming. This way it also accepts spaces and knows how to separate it from arguments.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah. It's a good idea to guard against it, but I would still never put spaces in filesnames that I myself choose.