On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 01:12:16PM -0600, Tim Haley wrote: > + If the modification involved a change in the link count of a > + file, the change will be expressed as a delta within > + parentheses on the modification line. Example outputs are > + below: > + > + M /myfiles/ > + M /myfiles/link_to_me (+1) > + R /myfiles/rename_me -> /myfiles/renamed > + - /myfiles/delete_me > + + /myfiles/new_file
Is there any escaping of whitespace and non-printable characters in the pathnames? If not then the above format is ambiguous and cannot be safely scripted. There are several ways that you could address that problem, such as escaping (HTML/XML entities? backslash escapes? pick your poison), adding a length field preceding either each path or each path that contains whitespace, or use a multi-line (for renames) format with paths being the last field such that you need only [backslash?-]escape newlines. Probably the simplest answer is backslash-escaping whitespace, since shells can handle that trivially. That is what I recommend. Nico --
