Re: [9front] PATCH walk(1) to (optionally) quote name and path

[unobe@cpan.org]

Quoth ori@eigenstate.org:
> Quoth Romano <unobe@cpan.org>:
> > I'm working with files on a backup drive that have spaces and
> > quotation marks in their names, using walk(1).  I can pipe to sed
> > s/''''/''''''''''/g and do similarly for other characters requiring
> > escaping for rc(1), but figured patching walk(1) would be better.
> 
> generally no objections, though it's usually relatively easy to
> structure scripts such that there's relatively little that is
> interpreted by rc; is this for interactive use?

I realized I didn't reply to your question, sorry.  No, not directly.
I am trying to consolidate some files spread across different paths to
one directory, so first doing:

	walk -f -eP | grep 'pattern' > /tmp/files_of_interest.txt

Then after reviewing and deleting further, I was going to do something like:

	clone `{cat /tmp/files_of_interest.txt} /path/

Are you thinking I'd do something like set the ifs manually?

	ifs='
'
	clone `{cat /tmp/files_of_interest.txt} /path