Re: du and wc should be able to read arguments from a file

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

Dave Gotwisner wrote:
[snip]
> Rather than assume it just takes a list of files, I would suggest strongly
> that whoever chooses to implement this (if anyone does), they also allow
> it to take other options as part of the file.
> Literally, they should replace the "--process-file=foo" with the literal
> contents of the file foo, not assuming they are files.  This gives a nice
> generic interface for scripting, and as such, as Jim says, any thing which
> needs to be escaped should be.  Maybe doing quote processing, to boot.
[snip]

If options were supported in the file, how would you perform operations on a
file beginning with '-'? I suppose '--' could mean 'end of options' like it
does on the command-line.

Regards,

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]