We support CSV in some arguments so one can do things like this:

ipa permission-add --permissions=read,write --attrs=sn,gn ...

This introduces great difficulty when trying to include a value with an embedded space in it. Trying to escape the space in a way that we can parse and make bash happy can be very difficult.

The level of effort in working around the CSV problems has come to the point where the benefits of it are outweighed by the problems.

There are several ways to workaround lack of CSV:

1. Provide an agugment multiple times on the command-line:

   ipa permission-add --permissions=read --permissions=write ...

2. Let bash do the expansion for you:

   ipa permission-add --permissions={read,write} ...