Re: RFC: turn off word splitting for vars but keep for read

[Greg Wooledge]

On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 08:41:46PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Aleksey Midenkov wrote:
> > rmcmd="$rmprog -f"
> > 
> > Because it will fail for files with spaces.
> 
> I am sure we disagree but I don't consider making rm program names
> have spaces to be reasonable.  :-/
> 
> What would it be?  "remove command"?  I definitely would not consider
> an executable named with spaces that way to be reasonable.

How about /mnt/c/Program Files/something/DEL.EXE?  The directory might
contain spaces even if the command name itself does not.