Re: coreutils ls

[Micah Cowan]

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Bob Proulx wrote:
> Vitaly V. Ch wrote:
>> As I understand  ls require null-separated format of output stream which
>> will suitable for xargs.
>>
>> in this case I systematically use find instead of ls.
> 
> Your message seems to be garbled and I, and perhaps others on the
> mailing list too, cannot understand what you are trying to say.  If
> you have a bug please describe the problem such that we can recreated
> it.  If you are requesting a feature then try to state the feature
> request in such a way that other people can understand it.  Thanks.

It reads to me like a request for ls to produce null-separated output,
so that

 $ ls -0 .

will produce output like

 $ find . -print0 -maxdepth 1

Vitaly: note that both find's -print0 and xarg's -0 are GNU extensions,
and are not portable.

And, if find does the job, then why do you need a second tool to be able
to accomplish the same thing?

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