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by billpg 886 days ago
DOS: "One of our commands allows separation of filenames with a + symbol, so we need to prohibit that character."

"Couldn't we rework that command to not use + separators?"

"No, far better to take that character out of consideration."

Unix: "Filenames can use control characters. I don't care if that makes pipes between commands really complicated! Add an option for NUL-separated filenames if you have to."

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Ahah... it was long ago the last time I typed a command like this...

  copy /b file1+file2 output