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


From: Dmitry V. Levin
Subject: Re: stat: possible feature retraction: speak now or hold your peace
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 18:27:20 +0300

On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 02:40:55PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 04:29:29PM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> 
> > 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.

Indeed.


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