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Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards
From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
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On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 05:07 +0000, Simon Wright wrote:
> Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de> writes:
> 
> > I find reading tar names from pipes a natural extension
> 
> What if the names have spaces in them?

1/ I tell users that Unix file names shouldn't have spaces in them
2/ I deny that Unix shell design is based on not so recent choices.
3a/ I use --null and -T with tar
3b/ I use cpio

Does this sound like an Ada advocate insisting that Ada 83 was
damn right but if anyone wanted, they could even use inward
closures with Ada 2005?

> For find/xargs you have -print0/-0 respectively (I say eew, but
> quietly)