On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 04:56:31PM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote: > On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Sheri wrote: > > > Could you please add an option for naming a file that contains a list of > > files to be searched? Possibly --filelist= > > Noted. Sounds perfectly reasonable. > > > Since globbing doesn't work at all when pcregrep is built in some > > environments, the user could create a list by piping from the dir command. > > Presumably the files in the list are newline-separated (that is, by CRLF)? > The option should probabably allow for any ASCII newline separator. > This is not enough for POSIX systems. There you can have any character except forward slash and NULL in a file name. (See `UNUSUAL FILENAMES' section in find(1) manual page for more details).
If you think both new-line- and NULL-separated lists are useful, you can add another option --filelist0. -- Petr
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