D. Hageman
Sun, 21 Jul 2002 23:59:23 -0700
On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, david nicol wrote: > One nifty thing you can do with pipe is use -print0 which > will zero-delilmit the file names instead of putting each on its own > line. It is NOT POSSIBLE to have a \0 within a file name. This is incorrect. It is completely possible to have a \0 in a filename. Simple experiment ... [dhageman@typhon dhageman]$ vim '\0' [dhageman@typhon dhageman]$ ls -l total 252 -rw-rw-r-- 1 dhageman dhageman 0 Jul 22 01:36 \0 Now the likelihood of encountering such is actually very small. -- //========================================================\\ || D. Hageman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> || \\========================================================//