Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Maybe `--files-from', since GNU tar uses that, but those names >> aren't separated with NUL bytes. >> >> Other ideas? > > tar uses --files-from=NAME (-T NAME) to read files from NAME, and a > separate option --null to say that the file names are NUL-terminated > rather than newline-terminated. cpio also uses -0 to mean --null. So > for consistency with these other tools I'd suggest two options, > --files-from and --null, rather than combining them into a single > option.
But then, what? Require that --null also be specified whenever --files-from is? Maybe, though it's not pretty. Or accept --files-from without --null and read newline-separated file names. I'd rather not do the latter, because I think many people would end up using that easier-to-use (but not robust) interface. > I assume that the only reason these options need to be added to du and > wc (as opposed to saying "just use xargs") is that these programs > print totals and can reasonably be applied to tons of arguments. Right. > This should probably be mentioned in the documentation somewhere. Yep :-) _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
