Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions

[chth]

> There is the command tla escape (and tla escape --unescaped). But they
> 
> only read a single command line argument. So you can't do:
> 
> tla inventory --source | tla escape --unescaped | xargs chmod 644
> and you can't do
> tla inventory --source | xargs tla escape --unescaped | xargs chmod
> 644

Try:

tla inventory --source |\
  while read line; do
    chmod 644 "$(tla escape --unescaped "$line")";
  done

the stream-mode was not added to tla escape because it wont handle
newlines in filenames and wont work with leading/trailing whitespaces.

tla inventory --source --unescaped |\
  while read line; do
    chmod 644 "$line";
  done

will work if you are sure that there are no newlines in filenames.

        Christian