Bernd Jendrissek wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: > > If the format is simply one file name per line, then what about > > files with names containing a newline? > > > > One solution is to require that newlines and backslashes be > > backslash-escaped. Another is simply to require that file names > > be NUL (aka '\0') separated, like what find's -print0 option would > > output. In the interests of keeping things simple, I'm leaning > > toward the latter. > > And even if the list of filenames is \n-separated to begin with, you can > always pipe that through tr '\n' '\0'.
Actually, no. If the filename contained a newline then converting that newline to a null would no longer match the original filename. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
