Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 09:53:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: find case-insensitive challenge Message-ID: <200209200753.g8K7rWik094255@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20020920015829.GA85636@adelaide.edu.au>
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Tim Peters <tim@lost.net.au> wrote: > FYI, find and xargs can work with weird filenames (as long as they > don't contain a \0) with these kind of options: > > find . -print0 | xargs -0 command UNIX filenames cannot contain '\0' bytes, so you're safe. (There are only two characters disallowed in UNIX filenames: the path separator '/' and zero-bytes '\0'. Everything else is allowed, including backspaces, newlines and all other kinds of nasty control codes. find -print0 | xargs -0 will handle all of them fine.) Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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