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  From: Andrew Burrow <alburrow@cs.adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : David Newall <davidn@rebel.net.au>
  Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 12:08:58 +1030

Re: Scripts walking the tree

> >  Things I haven't ironed out are [...] filenames with high ascii
> > characters in them (doncha just hate windows allowing spaces and things
> like
> > "&"?).
> 
> No I don't.  Unix specifically supports every 8  bit character in filenames
> except slash ('/') and nul.  Don't blame Windows if your script doesn't
> handle all of these possibilities.

Thats not really fair.  It has been discussed in the past, and it is
true that newlines in filenames are a proper bugger in scripts.  In
particular, they screw up pipelines.  Or perhaps you have an example
of a shell script that can grep/sort/uniq/iterate over etc., lists of
files where some contain newlines.  I have tried to no avail.

Cheers,


Andrew

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