From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-12-28T03:03:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Found a neat trick for doing recursive one-liners

"W.B.Hill" <mail@wbh.org> writes:

> On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Christian Neukirchen wrote:
>
>> Reinder Verlinde <reinder@verlinde.invalid> writes:
>>
>>> <educational type="but not ruby related">
>>> Not quite. For better (maximum?) robustness, pass '-print0' to find and
>>> '-0' to xargs. That will handle filenames with spaces and/or quotes
>>> correctly. (If your filenames have bytes with binary value zero in them,
>>> you still will be out of luck)
>>> </educational>
>>
>> Know an OS where that is allowed?
>
> NT 4 kernel mode API is quite happy with \0 in filenames. But it
> *really* confuses the Win32 layer! Haven't played with later
> versions...

So you need to pass the filename size all over?  Ugh. :P

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