Re: git-clean fails to remove a file whose name contains \\, ", or \n, TAB, etc.

From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: May 8, 2007, 20:51 UTC
Message-ID: <86k5vj9gzu.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <87ps5bhx8t.fsf@rho.meyering.net>

>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> writes:

Jim> Not that it matters (or maybe this is a feature :-), because people Jim> who create such files in their working directory deserve what they Jim> get, Eh? :-)

The problem is the newline in the string, since

  git-ls-files --others --directory $excl ${excl_info:+"$excl_info"} -- "$@" |
  while read -r file; do

is using newline as a delimiter.  Any file with a newline would mess this up.

Not being a shell programming expert, is there a way we could use -z and xargs -0 here instead?

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