Hi Linus, > Btw, the NUL-termination makes this really easy to use even in shell > scripts, ie you can do > > diff-tree <sha1> <sha1> | xargs -0 do_something > > and you'll get each line as one nice argument to your "do_something" > script. So a do_diff could be based on something like > > #!/bin/sh
Watch out for when xargs invokes do_something more than once and the `<' is parsed by a different one than the `>'. A `while read ...; do ... done' would avoid that, but wouldn't like the NULs instead of LFs. Cheers, Ralph. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
