[Gnu-arch-users] Re: ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished

[Miles Bader]

"David A. Wheeler" <address@hidden> writes:
> When the output is ONLY a list of files, the escaping seems excessive,
> because it complicates shell scripting.

Agreed.

I generally think of the `filename only per line' output formats (like
`tla inventory -s') as being quite separate from the `lots of info on a
line' formats (`tla inventory'); the latter output is special anyways,
so it's less painful to have more special rules that apply to it.

-Miles
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