Nicolas Williams wrote:
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:23:56PM -0400, Sebastien Roy wrote:
Is there any escaping of whitespace and non-printable characters in the
pathnames? If not then the above format is ambiguous and cannot be
safely scripted.
Taking a step back here, this subcommand is not the only zfs
subcommand whose output could be subject to parsing by scripts.
Many zfs sub-commands already have a -H option ("Display output in a
form more easily parsed by scripts").
However, those subcommands don't deal with filenames. They deal with
things like filesystem names and property names/values, which are all
much more constrained than filenames.
How do commands like ls and find handle printing of filenames with
arbitrary characters (newlines and such)?
--matt
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