On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 10:47 AM Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> wrote: > > On 26Oct2020 09:45, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > >On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 8:44 AM Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> wrote: > >> On 24Oct2020 13:37, Dan Sommers <2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com> wrote: > >> >Spaces in filenames are just as bad, and much more common: > >> > >> But much easier to handle in simple text listings, which are newline > >> delimited. > >> You're really running into a horrible behaviour from xargs, which is one > >> reason why GNU parallel exists. > > > >I don't consider the behaviour horrible, and xargs isn't the only > >thing to do this - other tools can be put into zero-termination mode > >too. > > I'm not talking about -print0 and -0, which I merely dislike as a hack > to accomodate badly named filenames, but xargs' non-0 behaviour, which > splits on whitespace. Instead of newlines. That pissed me off enough to > write my own. >
Ohh, I see what you mean. Yeah, newlines would be a better default for a lot of situations. Can't be changed now. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/OCQ6OTLSWBPOHHVBZFK3Z35RIOSK35PO/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
