On 9/10/07, John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> James Youngman scripsit:
>
> > If such concern is excessive, it would not have been necessary for
> > POSIX to invent "find ... -exec ... {} +". Nor for GNU to invent
> > "find -print0" or "sort -z".
>
> It's not quite so simple. "find -print0" and "xargs -print0", its
> counterpart, let people deal with pathnames that contain spaces
> as well as newlines.
While that is true, those utilities already coped with the space
character (for example, with "find -print" and "xargs -L").
> That's not a problem for "comm" or its friends.
I use comm for comparing lists of files more frequently than anything
else. But maybe that's just me...
> There is no particular reason AFAIU to single out 'comm' here. If
> you want to retrofit zero-delimited records into all the coreutils
> (and 'awk' and many others too) that's a different matter.
I agree. comm is not a special case.
James.
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