Word-splitting used in a sentence

Word-splitting in a sentence as a noun

Sure there are half-baked ways to do word-splitting on a byte-array. But why do you consider that a viable option?

Today I learned globbing happens after word-splitting. Can someone explain the following: for file in .

And you need to be disciplined about quoting, otherwise surprises will happen when you have user-controlled input and the shell starts to do word-splitting. But if you use shellcheck you will be reminded of quoting everywhere.