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[Ben Escoto]

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>>>>> "HL" == Henrik Lewander <henrik@lewander.com>
>>>>> wrote the following on Sun, 8 Sep 2002 18:58:36 +0200

  HL> So what is the proper way of selecting directories if they don't
  HL> fit on the command line? (happened to me)

A good question - I didn't know command line length was limiting
anyone.  It still seems that --include-filelist and the like should
have different syntax than the shell commands:  special characters
like ? and * might be inadvertently interpreted, and I think the
behavior might be generally less useful.  After all, the output of
"find ." starts with "." (and doesn't stop there because they assume
recursion).

    Perhaps new switches --[include|exclude]-globbing-filelist could
be added, or maybe a switch --command-line-list, where the content of
the file would be read as if it had been given as command line
arguments...


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Ben Escoto

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