[CaptSpify]

I'm guessing it was down-voted because you keep missing the point. Yes, there are work-arounds for this scenario, but the overhead in remembering the work-arounds is the problem. He's not saying you can't do it, he's saying the problem is that you have to change your setup for edge-cases, which are actually fairly common.

[txutxu]

Indeed, edge cases keep hitting you, until you know them and howto work-around them. Is that a shell specific issue? that is a universal issue I think.

A big problem, is that people that underestimate an unknown technology, does not take the time to learn properly that technology.

Many programmers think they "know" shell (and many beginners), so they don't invert more time and tests, and then they keep facing corner cases, facing known and documented and solved issues, etc...

You are asserting, than learning bash is harder than learning the corner cases of other more advanced languages. Is that what you say? do you think that "bash" has more corner cases than ... (?)

How we can patch that? With a web shell?

Totally true, I've miss totally the point.

[NoGravitas]

It's not even so much the overhead in remembering the work-arounds, as remembering when exactly you need the work-arounds.

[txutxu]

Shell script split on spaces (or the values of $IFS) by design.

For example, use null delimited values, because a variable (like IFS) cannot contain null bytes. Is this a workaround? I see it as pure logic.

Even understanding howto handle them, helps to understand the internal design of the shell and common external utilities.

Remembering is hard? not a "shell" specific issue... I use it daily and maybe that's why I don't face the same problems that other see so clear.

[CaptSpify]

haha, yes, that's what I meant. Your phrasing is better