Re: [Gnu-arch-users] cvs export for tla?

[Jason McCarty]

John Arbash Meinel wrote:
[regarding -T for tar]
> And you're right, -T - is much better than xargs, since xargs can't be
> told to only split on newlines.

Might it be a bad idea to use xargs with tar in any case, since with
enough files xargs would run "tar cjf ..." two or more times?

> I understand that they decided to use '-0' to handle it, but it would
> still be nicer to do the newline thing. In filenames, spaces are common,
> newlines are significantly less so.
> There was a discussion of creating an xxargs, or "tla xargs" to handle
> tla escapes, since Tom doesn't really like the -0 flag. Don't know that
> it ever went anywhere.

I use this (zsh) function, on the few occasions it matters:
  xxargs () { # read newline-separated pika-escaped names and hand them to xargs
    local file
    (while read -r file; do
       tla escape --unescaped "$file"
       echo -en '\0'
     done
    ) | xargs -0 "$@"
  }

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Jason McCarty <address@hidden>