Re: du and wc should be able to read arguments from a file

Bernd Jendrissek wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
> > If the format is simply one file name per line, then what about
> > files with names containing a newline?
> > 
> > One solution is to require that newlines and backslashes be
> > backslash-escaped.  Another is simply to require that file names
> > be NUL (aka '\0') separated, like what find's -print0 option would
> > output.  In the interests of keeping things simple, I'm leaning
> > toward the latter.
> 
> And even if the list of filenames is \n-separated to begin with, you can
> always pipe that through tr '\n' '\0'.

Actually, no.  If the filename contained a newline then converting
that newline to a null would no longer match the original filename.

Bob