Topic: quoting

• Paths with spaces and special characters across bash, zsh, PowerShell and cmd

  The same file name with a space, a wildcard character or a leading dash breaks a different scripting habit in each shell: an unquoted expansion in bash or zsh, a wildcard-interpreting -Path in PowerShell, and an unquoted argument in cmd. Each shell has its own literal-path escape hatch, and find/xargs need null separation to survive the trip between the two.

  article · en · reviewed · knowledge as of 2026-09-24

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