http://hash-bang.net/2009/04/converting-null/ The start of all wonderful things Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:44:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://hash-bang.net/2009/04/converting-null/comment-page-1/#comment-2664 mc Mon, 05 Apr 2010 23:45:17 +0000 http://hash-bang.net/?p=136#comment-2664 Depends what you are doing I suppose. I was assuming 'cmd' would be something like 'xargs -0' as so: <code>find -type f | 0 | xargs -0 echo</code> Which works exactly the same as: <code>find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 echo</code> I guess it depends on what the command is and how nicely it can process null characters. '0' was originally designed so that programs that do <em>not</em> understand null terminated arguments can work. A good example would be: <code>ls -1 | 0 | xargs -0 echo</code> Where poor 'ls' cannot understand null terminated file names and thus would fail on any file name containing whitespace. Depends what you are doing I suppose. I was assuming ‘cmd’ would be something like ‘xargs -0′ as so:
find -type f | 0 | xargs -0 echo
Which works exactly the same as:
find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 echo
I guess it depends on what the command is and how nicely it can process null characters. ’0′ was originally designed so that programs that do not understand null terminated arguments can work. A good example would be:
ls -1 | 0 | xargs -0 echo
Where poor ‘ls’ cannot understand null terminated file names and thus would fail on any file name containing whitespace.

]]> http://hash-bang.net/2009/04/converting-null/comment-page-1/#comment-2662 sma Fri, 02 Apr 2010 22:19:36 +0000 http://hash-bang.net/?p=136#comment-2662 Hm, instead of "find -type f | 0 | cmd | ..." you obviously meant "find -type f | cmd | 0 | ...". Hm, instead of “find -type f | 0 | cmd | …” you obviously meant “find -type f | cmd | 0 | …”.

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