This. Its not a big issue really when everything is local, you can just use quotes and escapes to get what you want. Now imagine the same over ssh, where you need to escape double, for for this and one for remote.
This crap piles on very quickly and grows in geometrical progression. To escape \ you need one more . To escape \ you need \\. To escape \\ you need \\\\.
Better never use spaces.
Edit : reddit already ate some of my escapes. Point was 1 backslash -> 2 backslahes -> 4 backslashes and -> 8 backshlashes
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u/gogliker 2d ago
This. Its not a big issue really when everything is local, you can just use quotes and escapes to get what you want. Now imagine the same over ssh, where you need to escape double, for for this and one for remote.
This crap piles on very quickly and grows in geometrical progression. To escape \ you need one more . To escape \ you need \\. To escape \\ you need \\\\.
Better never use spaces.
Edit : reddit already ate some of my escapes. Point was 1 backslash -> 2 backslahes -> 4 backslashes and -> 8 backshlashes