Everyone quotes command line arguments the wrong way (2011)

The POSIX sh quoting rules seem much simpler.<p>It&#x27;s quite the mess Microsoft has there.

&quot;Everyone [...] the wrong way&quot;<p>By Microsoft. What a bunch of douche.

Via <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.asciitable.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.asciitable.com</a> :<p>DEC Desc<p>28 Separator<p>29 Group Separator<p>30 Record Separator<p>31 Unit Separator<p>Why not use some existing, non-printing characters to obviate all the weeping and gnashing of teeth?

I pity the fool who has to use the command line on Windows. This is one of the many reasons why.

Reading M$ C code is painful with all those horrible M$ specific adds.