Re: include-from-file filename separator

Denis Corbin <[email protected]> Thu, 19 May 2022 20:18:29 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.dar.support
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

as I'm lazy, I propose to add a new option that let user define the line
separation character. This will cover \0 and \n but also \t (tab) and so
on... whatever makes sense for other use case.

For now adding this to the TODO list

Cheers,
Denis

Le 19/05/2022 à 18:22, Mihai Moldovan a écrit :
> * On 5/19/22 5:14 PM, Jean-Baptiste Denis wrote:
>> [...]
>> Maybe a --include-from-file0 option would be valuable, so that we could use find / -print0 and dar in the same spirit as 
>> find -print0 and xargs -0 ?
> 
> I totally agree. NUL-delimited operations are widely supported, given that this
> character, most often, is not allowed in file names by file systems, while
> almost every other (short of the directory separator) is.
> 
> It makes sense for dar to support this as well.
> 
> 
> 
> Mihai
> 
>
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