To be fair, the correct script on Plan 9 is academic. Just do what gets the
job done for you now. Don't go down an academic black hole. These guys have
been arguing about `find` since 2002.

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On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 6:00 PM, anonymous <aim0shei@lavabit.com> wrote:

> > While it's true that you'll have misses on tabs in filenames, it's much
> more
> > rare to have a tab in a filename than it is to have a space, yes?
> >
>
> I don't have spaces too, but correct script should not make any
> assumptions.
>
> There is interesting date on http://swtch.com/plan9history/:
> March 23, 1999   allow spaces in file names
>
> I think it will be better to just disallow whitespaces (spaces and
> tabs) in file names. Looks like that idea with using awk was there
> before whitespaces allowed, so there was no problem.
>
>
>