svn commit: trunk/busybox
Rich Felker
dalias at aerifal.cx
Thu May 11 11:50:18 PDT 2006
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 02:40:04PM -0400, Paul Fox wrote:
> > > > Just remove the 0, it's nonsense. Filenames do not have embedded
> > > > newlines in them! Anyone who creates such stupid filenames deserves
> > > > what they get.
> > >
> > > in this case, at least, it protects against spaces in names as
> > > well, which are a lot more common than newlines. that being
> > > said, this isn't a windows or mac development tree. okay by me
> > > to drop the 0.
> >
> > protects spaces? how? xargs reads one filename per line, not per word.
>
> no. what it reads is whitespace-separated.
oh. how incredibly stupid. then just write a script to do what xargs
should do, or better yet, use the -exec option to find...
rich
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