At 02:33 PM 6/8/01 -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> >>>>> "Atul" == Atul Khot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>Atul> Just out of curiosity ( and to learn more ), as you say,
>suppose a
>Atul> filename has an embedded newline in it. Referring to Mathew's solution,
>Atul> can't we somehow read that as a single filename and operate on it?
>Atul> Specifically, does the shell ( read builtin etc. ) provide any way
>to do
>Atul> it?
>
>No, because newlines are the delimiters for sh's "read" operator.
I don't have the original post on this computer, but I remember it
vaguely. Could it be simply modified to use -print0 and xargs -0 to get
the desired result?
cheers,
Jeff
