Re: Strings manipulation without using variables

[Francesco Pretto]

Greg Wooledge <wooledg <at> eeg.ccf.org> writes:
> Just in case, it needs to be pointed out that using ls in this way is
> NOT a safe operation, since filenames may contain newlines (or other
> characters that ls may choose to represent with a ? instead of leaving
> intact, depending on the implementation).  Newlines will completely
> break any line-based approach, and characters that are munged into ?
> will break anything that relies on the output of ls for that filename.
> 

'ls' wasn't my task (I was more interested in syntax dissertation) but
thanks for safeness and performance hints, they are always precious.

Greetings,
Francesco