To be fair, the correct script on Plan 9 is academic. Just do what gets the job done for you now. Don't go down an academic black hole. These guys have been arguing about `find` since 2002.
D On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 6:00 PM, anonymous <aim0s...@lavabit.com> wrote: > > 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? > > > > I don't have spaces too, but correct script should not make any > assumptions. > > There is interesting date on http://swtch.com/plan9history/: > March 23, 1999 allow spaces in file names > > I think it will be better to just disallow whitespaces (spaces and > tabs) in file names. Looks like that idea with using awk was there > before whitespaces allowed, so there was no problem. > > >
