Escaping spaces in arguments to shell script

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

Bill Ricker wrote:
>  Unix open(2)
> used to prevent you from creating files with ' ' or '/', but I fear it
> only blocks '/' now ?  

When was this? Back when I first touched Unix, in 1983, the only bytes 
open(2) did not allow in filenames were '/' and '\000'. I've never seen 
a Unix where open(2) disallowed anything else.

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