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Subject: RE: cygpath and spaces in filenames when reading from a file
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:35:43 -0500
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Behalf Of Mark J. Reed
> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 8:12
> Subject: Re: cygpath and spaces in filenames when reading from a file
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> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Corinna Vinschen  wrote:
> > No, it doesn't. =A0Space is used as the field separator in=20
> the file. =A0I=20
> > assume we need an extension like allowing to specify=20
> another separator.
> > Another one for next year...
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> As a first step, maybe just adding an xargs-style "--null/-0"=20
> to treat input as NUL-separated instead of=20
> whitespace-separated would be worthwhile?
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> The options list is kinda full, single-letter-alias-wise; I=20
> see no obvious place to put a more general '--delimiter' (-d=20
> and -D and -f and -F and -s and -S are all taken).  Also,=20
> allowing specification of an arbitrary delimiter would seem=20
> to open up another can of character-encoding worms.

You could even treat the -0 in the future just like the perl record seperat=
or
option syntax.

=46rom man perl-opt:

-0digits=20
specifies the record separator ($/) as an octal number. If there are no dig=
its,
the null character is the separator. Other switches may precede or follow t=
he
digits. For example, if you have a version of find which can print filenames
terminated by the null character, you can say this:=20
    find . -name '*.bak' -print0 | perl -n0e unlink

The special value 00 will cause Perl to slurp files in paragraph mode. The =
value
0777 will cause Perl to slurp files whole since there is no legal character=
 with
that value.=20




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