From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Suvayu Ali Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: grep-find oddity Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:49:19 -0700 Message-ID: <4BA7AD9F.2000001@gmail.com> References: <87pr2xt49y.fsf@pobox.com>, <83tys9gft8.fsf@gnu.org> <87mxy0thw6.fsf@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269280203 8659 80.91.229.12 (22 Mar 2010 17:50:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:50:03 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 22 18:49:59 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtllH-0001Uo-67 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:49:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46693 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NtllG-0000q0-LB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:49:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ntlkr-0000pL-D6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:49:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57877 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ntlkq-0000or-5k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:49:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ntlko-00050M-Pt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:49:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f210.google.com ([209.85.220.210]:52102) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ntlko-000500-Jt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:49:30 -0400 Original-Received: by fxm2 with SMTP id 2so1277997fxm.26 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:49:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=emM2WeVGWxuS3Jk/pgy7h9Jx+OfBmaBKLmvZbZMKrR4=; b=rpSAOxGcxi7MFyFDYX1XNYIGL4RxF95VBZMVwJJFsfoXKx7AhSwaf1+BEeX0Q8L4jW 6AEwwpK1nMHNBdaFxg5bCZRYN4YxQIU6dccCbganORmn7CdlTsDL6DcxPhIO2Gc0MvVb vd5YzQzTKvI8S7gCC+2Y69QGZPj+iupjJovRc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=k4/lXJRg4b5QtmxNQIRcaKlzQhERMvxChz2OpijqS7JVjpyref0bQkE3Xv7AxSZUtP RG1fWhN0LzMzWme/nqfBI8C+R4rSmkh33uac0b2zxFUowIqWrO3nEZ4vKFxg63oFlmh9 G/Dd7Xb5iU91qHnBnPUK8gHdcIVEXqRNF1yjU= Original-Received: by 10.223.15.143 with SMTP id k15mr8258262faa.57.1269280168541; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:49:28 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (d142-58-122-179.burnaby.sfu.ca [142.58.122.179]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 18sm11453832fkq.34.2010.03.22.10.49.21 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:49:22 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100301 Fedora/3.0.3-1.fc12 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0.3 In-Reply-To: <87mxy0thw6.fsf@pobox.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72450 Archived-At: On 22/03/10 09:56 AM, Tom Roche wrote: > Wrong) to be a likely source of error. Am I missing something? Or is > there an overriding motivation for making null-string termination the > default? > It is a shell thing. With a null string terminated list, its easier to deal with file names with special characters. > thanks for the tip, Tom Roche > HTH -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.