Take the 2-minute tour ×  I'm not exactly sure if this is a
"right" question to post here. I'm probably asking more about
"opinions" than actual categorical answers (of those that either
work or don't, and that's it).  I was wondering what name
separators would be the most linux friendly (or more
specifically, Bash friendly) and human friendly at the same
time.  Let's say I want to create a directory that contains
something related to Mr. Foo Bar (Foo being the first name, Bar
being the last name)  Having the name "Foo-Bar/" is very
convenient. - is a "regular" character, it doesn't need to be
escaped, it clearly shows that Foo and Bar are two separate
things... Nice.  Now, "Foo.Bar" is a bit trickier. Someone may
think that Foo.Bar is actually a file (at a first glance,
specially if you don't have terminals with coloring enabled)
where "Foo" is the filename, and "Bar" the extension.  I could
also use "Foo Bar", but then I need to escape the whitespace
when I want to access the directory and, if I want to lis