From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e219d94b946dfc26 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards References: <45dcaed8_6@news.bluewin.ch> <1172132169.423514.271890@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com> <545bgvF1ttrphU1@mid.individual.net> <1495406.QZvfpqijrQ@linux1.krischik.com> <6dy7mn3hhu.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> <1172328891.5496.62.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1173096982.3712.37.camel@localhost> <8utzwzzv0v.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> <1173185771.11841.69.camel@localhost> <11wk29zr0.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> <1173305192.29628.82.camel@localhost> From: Markus E Leypold Organization: N/A Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:19:10 +0100 Message-ID: User-Agent: Some cool user agent (SCUG) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LVISQqCGJpDyRewDlbvGTiDaru8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.72.203.69 X-Trace: news.arcor-ip.de 1173345178 88.72.203.69 (8 Mar 2007 10:12:58 +0200) X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor-ip.de Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.unit0.net!newsfeed.arcor-ip.de!news.arcor-ip.de!not-for-mail Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14429 Date: 2007-03-08T10:19:10+01:00 List-Id: Simon Wright writes: > Georg Bauhaus writes: > >> I find reading tar names from pipes a natural extension > > What if the names have spaces in them? > > For find/xargs you have -print0/-0 respectively (I say eew, but > quietly) Space are probably not a problem (when reading from a pipe). New lines in filenames are, though, but those also mess up the output of ls and any other tool. Regards -- Markus