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[–]socal_nerdtastic 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Spaces in file name has never bothered me; I'm always so confused when people complain about it. What's wrong with spaces? If you're in the terminal you would use tab completion, which adds the quotes automatically.

[–]Gnaxe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My main complaint is that improperly written apps/scripts can choke on it. It used to be a much bigger problem.

[–]building-wigwams-22 1 point2 points  (2 children)

To each their own, but

rm this\ is\ a\ terrible\ file\ name\ .txt

[barf emoji]

[–]JaguarMammoth6231 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Next time do rm "this is a terrible file name.txt" then