Re: coreutils ls

[Vitaly V. Ch]

On Dec 3, 2007 12:06 PM, Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:

> Micah Cowan <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > 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 .
>
> This comes close:
>
> $ printf "%s\0" *


as far as I understand it's will not work if the total size of filenames in
current directory is more then 32K bytes


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> Andreas.
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