Comment by codetrotter

I do it the other way around. I used to be afraid of spaces. But I have come to realize that it is better to learn sooner than later which pieces of software is in such a bad state that they aren’t handling spaces correctly.

That being said, even after all these years I sometimes need to try a few times in order to get the quoting and the escapes right when communicating names of files with spaces through multiple layers of software.