Re: du and wc should be able to read arguments from a file

[Bernd Jendrissek]

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On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 09:23:24AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> If the format is simply one file name per line, then what about
> files with names containing a newline?
> 
> One solution is to require that newlines and backslashes be backslash-escaped.
> Another is simply to require that file names be NUL (aka '\0') separated,
> like what find's -print0 option would output.
> In the interests of keeping things simple, I'm leaning toward the latter.

And even if the list of filenames is \n-separated to begin with, you can
always pipe that through tr '\n' '\0'.  So yes, NUL-separation seems to
be more expressive.

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