Bob Proulx wrote:
Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
Yes. And cursed they are but so it is. :-)
Oh, come on. I know all about the "inherent danger", and I still use
spaces in my file names, and probably always will. It's simply easier
for us humans to think that way.
If you couldn't tell I was acknowledging their troubles in a
"tongue-in-cheek" way saying that they are annoying but not really a
terrible problem but that life would be simpler without them.
Indeed, I seem to have missed that you were being ironic. Sorry about
that. (Also for the delay, been away from lists for a week...)
By the way I *have* encountered files with newlines in them. I didn't
create them. I want nothing to do with them. But I have hit them
when other people have created them. They are possible. They are not
completely unknown in the wild.
Oy. My sympathies :-).
What about programs that only understand whitespace or NUL as
delimiters?
Hmm... Such as? (thinking... not coming up with an example)
Hmm, is xargs a GNU extension? Otherwise I'd say non-GNU xargs.
Certainly there is a good chance such programs are non-GNU :-). (I feel
like I had an example when I wrote that, but now I can't think of it
either.)
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Matthew
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