[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished
From: |
Jan Hudec |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Mar 2004 10:50:53 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i |
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:12:25 +1100, address@hidden wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 04:11:15AM +0000, David A. Wheeler wrote:
> > Er, sorry, I guess I wasn't clear. I understand why you'd need
> > escape sequences when the filename is embedded in something else,
> > that wasn't my question. When the output is ONLY a list of files,
> > the escaping seems excessive, because it complicates shell scripting.
>
> Filenames may contain newlines. Now *that* complicates shell scripting.
Though does not make impossible -- IIRC the read builtin has un-quoting
capability, so when you use read + looping constructs + proper quoting
conversion, it's doable.
> Perhaps the escaped version should have an option to zero-terminate
> a la gnu find/xargs.
They should have unquoting capability instead ;-).
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jan 'Bulb' Hudec
<address@hidden>
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished, (continued)
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished, David A. Wheeler, 2004/03/14
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished, David A. Wheeler, 2004/03/14
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished, Miles Bader, 2004/03/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished, mlh, 2004/03/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished, Tom Lord, 2004/03/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished,
Jan Hudec <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished, Tom Lord, 2004/03/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished, Jan Hudec, 2004/03/18
- Message not available
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished, Jan Hudec, 2004/03/17