Re: [PATCH] Ignore file filter

Junio C Hamano wrote:

Just a half theoretical question.  How well does this perform
when your filenames have:

   - ' '  (ASCII 0x20)
   - '\t' (ASCII 0x09)
   - '\n' (ASCII 0x0a)
   - '`'  (ASCII 0x60) backtick
   - '$'  (ASCII 0x24) dollar sign

in them?  Or is it the case that the rest of the Cogito is not
careful enough and it does not matter to be careful only in this
script?
 

That's what the:
zerosep=$'-d "\0"'
is for.
It looks like the shell 'read' doesn't honour it though - I couldn't
make it work.

However, thanks, after I fixed the quotes I missed in:
-o \( $pass_files -eq 1 -a -f "$file" \) \
-o \( $pass_dirs -eq 1 -a -d "$file" \) \
-o \( $pass_links -eq 1 -a -h "$file" \) \

it handles all cases above except \n (of course)

Frankly I think we're beyond shell programming and we should be using
perl (IMHO as the 'best' and most portable text handler)
It also has a *fantastic* test harness available.

David