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Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux

From Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.unix.programmer
Subject Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux
Date 2024-09-04 07:05 +0000
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On Tue, 03 Sep 2024 21:36:48 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>
>> Next step: what if you wanted to handle newlines in file names as well?
> 
> Either `find ... -print0 | xargs -0 ...` or a quick Perl script.

Sure, it’s much easier in Perl or Python or some other such programming-
oriented (as opposed to command-oriented) language. But it can be done in 
Bash.

The thing is, while find is handy for getting the matching file names, 
xargs is not always the most convenient way of processing them. You often 
just want to be able to do “for f in «filenames»; do «whatever» done”, 
e.g.:

    collect_expand «wildcard» found_filenames
    for f in "${found_filenames[@]}"; do
        echo "found" $(printf %q "$f")
    done

That “collect_expand” is a Bash function. Do you want to figure out how to 
write it, before I post my solution? ;)

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                Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-09-01 07:03 +0000
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                Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-09-03 22:18 +0000
                Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-09-03 22:59 +0000
                Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-09-03 16:10 -0700
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                Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-09-03 17:27 -0700
                Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-09-04 00:44 +0000
                Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-09-03 21:36 -0700
                Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-09-04 07:05 +0000
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                Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-09-04 03:44 -0700
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                Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-04 18:03 +0100
                Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Ralf Fassel <ralfixx@gmx.de> - 2024-09-05 11:29 +0200
                Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-05 18:21 +0100
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