[bug #64816] support ls' --quoting-style= option

[Bernhard Voelker]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #64816 (project findutils):


> [...] most of the POSIX shell and utilities have no support for printing or
reading NUL delimited, it's only GNU extensions [...]

well, you were asking for a GNU extension as well ...

But back to the requirement.

Of course, we can suggest and add a lot of options and features, but to keep
the code
as compact as possible, we should encourage people to use what's there,
i.e., use the GNU toolbox.  Therefore, before talking about what to add,
let's take the time to talk about why to add it, and what kind of problem to
solve with it.  Eventually, there are already several other existing
solutions
out there, and this would be a strong argument against adding new things.

TBH I'd not consider the for-loop example in the original report as sufficient
as an
argument to add something in find/xargs, because there are several ways to
do such processing safely and efficient already.

So what is the concrete problem to be solved (which cannot already be solved
in the one or the other way)?



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