On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 01:07:02PM -0800, James McMechan wrote: > I am would suggest something like GNU_QUIRKS and POSIX_QUIRKS config > symbols to add in the odd features like gnu sed directly disagreeing > with POSIX or POSIX's umm interesting xargs without -0 quoting > conventions and any other "why did they do it that way" I know POSIX
There is nothing unusual or quirky about the way xargs without -0 works. It's the way it's always been on all historical systems, and it's the only way xargs can actually process arbitrary lists of filenames. Mistakenly treating the input as a newline-delimited list of literals rather than a whitespace-delimited list of shell-quoted strings is a toybox quirk that's a bug and just needs to be fixed. Rich _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
