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> Or maybe you pipe into xargs and pray your filenames don’t have spaces So they wrote a new tool and posted it on HN before checking the manual about null cha
by pif 2mo ago
> Or maybe you pipe into xargs and pray your filenames don’t have spaces
So they wrote a new tool and posted it on HN before checking the manual about null character termination... Not trustable at all, what a waste of time!
- theideaofcoffee 2mo agoSame thought I had, and that is where I stopped reading. All of these looping/enumerating techniques, including the weirdness with null-terminating strings to get around the shell's inherent treatment of spacing, are muscle memory for anyone that has spent more than 27 minutes in the shell at any point in the last 30 years. Yes it's weird because it's old. Deal with it. Why make yet another tool with yet another set of quirks?
- eviks 2mo ago> Why make yet another tool with yet another set of quirks? Obviously because not all sets are equal?