Kang-Che Sung wrote in <caddzafosm_mylysy8nobokac4rs1k_lo6ktffwnvef5rdaa...@mail.gmail.com>: ... |When it comes to unusual filenames, the GNU way of doing it is implementing |a `--null` option that accepts the list of filenames separated by ASCII NUL |characters. | |Various other utilities can print the filename list with NUL as the |separator. For example `-print0` command in `find(1)`.
This (at least, too lazy to look) is also part of the new POSIX standard released in June. Ie, going that NUL thing seems "to come", it *could* be that there are other issues lying around for the next standard. ... (Nonetheless quoting in the shell language is a must 80092 The application shall quote the following characters if they are to represent themselves: 80093 | & ; < > ( ) $ ` \ " ' <space> <tab> <newline> and POSIX 2024 adds the $'' dollar single quote mechanism (dash is about to implement it / has just recently done so), and for tools producing output for the (interaction with the) shell that thus seems useful to have; i do not know how portable "IFS= xy" is..) --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
