From: kalterdev@gmail.com
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] How do you deal with newlines (line feed, LF, \n) in filenames?
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2024 16:46:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17233228160.1d47.67930@composer.9fans.topicbox.com> (raw)
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Suppose you want to grep over a filtered list of files. Is there an idiomatic approach to solve this problem with rc?
I can only think of one erroneous method:
grep pattern `{find . -type f -name '*_test.go'}
I know that it's possible to use find(1)'s -exec option. But find does not exist in Plan 9.
It seems like it is impossible to solve this problem with simple IO pipes. One must encode newlines somehow, be it C-style \n, shell-style 'string', JSON or whatnot.
It also seems that newlines are the only symbol that breaks the idiom `grep pattern `{cmd}`.
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2024-08-10 20:46 kalterdev [this message]
2024-08-10 21:05 ` sirjofri
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