On Jan 6, 2008 6:52 PM, Dasn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 06/01/08 17:14 -0500, Matt Wozniski wrote: > > > >So, there ought to be no problems with > >for i in *; do > > printf "%s\0" $i > >done > > > > Hmm, I found some tricky stuff this morning, just one > > $ printf "%s\0" * > > is enough. Tested in freebsd, obsd, linux. > I don't know why and whether it will work on other platforms. :)
Sure; that's not tricky at all, and it works with the caveat I mentioned above... If "printf" is an external binary, this needs to go through an exec call, which means we could create a command line + environment that's larger than ARG_MAX, causing the call to fail. That's much, much less likely to happen when passing a single file name. ~Matt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
