[dfcowell]

That there are worse things that exist is no reason not to pluck the low hanging fruit. I see this attitude on HN a lot. Spaces are probably the 80 in the 80/20 rule here. Why not address them?

[txutxu]

Please give a single example in shell about spaces, that has not been already addressed.

From where do your get that rule?

[tomsmeding]

It's the pareto principle. In this case he means "20% of the problems account for 80% of the trouble" -- albeit somwhat strangely worded.

[txutxu]

Thanks I did know about the theory. My question was more about where are the numbers coming from?

I write shell daily, and that are not my numbers regarding "spaces on filenames issues", sorry.