Re: Question about an TODO item.

2003-11-09 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Maybe `--files-from', since GNU tar uses that, but those names >> aren't separated with NUL bytes. >> >> Other ideas? > > tar uses --files-from=NAME (-T NAME) to read files from NAME, and a > separate option --null

Re: Question about an TODO item.

2003-11-09 Thread Paul Eggert
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe `--files-from', since GNU tar uses that, but those names > aren't separated with NUL bytes. > > Other ideas? tar uses --files-from=NAME (-T NAME) to read files from NAME, and a separate option --null to say that the file names are NUL-terminated r

Re: Re: Question about an TODO item.

2003-11-09 Thread Dennis Smit
Heya!, i will look into the papers!, have you already received the -c --total patch for df ? I will think about what kind of option i could use for that file name list option for du and wc. Also i have been looking in the vsclite test, however i will set up an new machine to run the test so i won

Re: Question about an TODO item.

2003-11-09 Thread Jim Meyering
Dennis Smit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to implement the following todo item: > > du and wc: add an option to make them read NUL-delimited > file name arguments from a file. > > I there anything i should know i start, how would you prefer > the option to be called? You should file