The Wanderer wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
The problem is the same as always, filenames with embedded newlines in
them.
I've never seen a filename with an embedded newline, and AFAICT standard
command-line tools cannot produce such.
Oh? ;-)
echo 'bar' > "`echo -e 'foo\nbar'`"
True, it isn't *easy* but it's certainly do-able. That said, except for
such experiments I've never seen such files either, certainly they are
not nearly so common as files with spaces in the name.
For data which contains whitespace but is newline-separated, the
suggested pipeline does seem like it would work. I appreciate the
suggestion.
Right, that was the objective... you're welcome! :-)
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Matthew
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