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On 15/11/10 12:11, Simon Waters wrote:
perhaps thats where 'programming' rather than 'scripting' comes in - by which I mean a bit more 'discipline' not wishing to disparage scripting languages per se. unix was meant to be built on a lot of simple programs that did simple things well.tom wrote:These things should be beaten into anyone even thinking of doing an IT course before they're allowed near a mouse!.Does that include the use of "-print0" on "find" and "-0" on "xargs" ;)The beatings won't stop until all scripts handle spaces in file names correctly (I know mine don't) or we admit defeat and change the file systems to allow only a limited set of sensible characters in file names.Simon
Not sure where it went wrong.. Easily fixed tho... Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq