Re: Feature request for cut and/or sort

[The Wanderer]

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This is a tangent, and I do not really expect to receive any on-list
replies at all.)

John Cowan wrote:

> Bob Proulx scripsit:
>
> > The problem is the same as always, filenames with embedded newlines
> > in them.
>
> IMHO, people who embed newlines into filenames deserve to lose.  But
> that's just me.
>
> Additionally, the notion that it's legitimate for text files to
> contain \0 is equally silly.
>
> But I don't make the rules.

Both of those seem silly to me, as well (though the latter less than the
former) - and yet one thing which does not seem silly, and which indeed
I have wanted on more than one occasion, seems to be adamantly
forbidden: filenames containing the directory separator.

I have heard it claimed that this is done on technical grounds, but I
have yet to hear - or, for that matter (despite some minor degree of
effort devoted to the subject over time), imagine - any technical
obstacle to this which I have not been able to come up with a
comparatively trivial way to surmount.

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