While it's true that you'll have misses on tabs in filenames, it's much more rare to have a tab in a filename than it is to have a space, yes? There is no loss on a single quote character. You're quoting the command line argument.
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:35 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net>wrote:
> On Mon Dec 28 18:32:36 EST 2009, don.bai...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > du -a | awk '-F\t' '{print $2}' -
> >
>
> lossage on tabs and ' in filenames.
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> - erik
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