15 Dec
2011
15 Dec
'11
7:33 p.m.
On 15/12/11 10:09 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
On 15/12/11 9:44 PM, Mouse wrote:
I mean file /names/ containing newlines. Of which I see a lot!
You guys want titanium screws where duct tape does just fine; and in the
heat of the moment I don't really want to have to write or pore over the
C code that would not have that issue. Cost/benefit. But if I *did* have
files with newlines, maybe Unix could handle that too. Who knows?
--T
[Please trim your quotes!]
I have a lot of files containing newlines, so yes, this is a serious
problem. What does DOS do with files containing newlines...
But in any ahem Unix system, you can already do,
ad hoc:
$ ls | perl -n -e 'chomp;
m/(.*)\.log$/&& rename($_, "$1.old");'
I think using perl hardly counts as "any [] Unix system".
Or is that what your "ahem" is there for?
Also, that's going to misbehave, one way or another, on names
containing newlines, and possibly (I'm not entirely clear what "chomp"
does) names containing other characters. --T
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