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Re: stat: possible feature retraction: speak now or hold your peace


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: stat: possible feature retraction: speak now or hold your peace
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:40:55 +0100
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"Dmitry V. Levin" <address@hidden> writes:

> At least one script I found uses stat in the
> following form:
> sizes=($(find somepath -print0 |xargs -r0 stat --format='%s '))
> I believe that --format behavior change will break this script.

It won't.  The newline would just be another whitespace character that is
skipped while breaking up the words.

Andreas.

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