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| author | Pedro J. Ruiz Lopez <holzplatten@es.gnu.org> | 2008-10-23 20:08:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2009-07-04 18:47:49 +0200 |
| commit | 2da7dc21e77a43d43696abc86700dda9259cf091 (patch) | |
| tree | 713e78df15ea92839eb48107b02710127c1786be /doc | |
| parent | ba3da6fe033c38ffdac4fe9b60b617f26a687aaf (diff) | |
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mkid, xtokid: accept a new option --files0-from=FILE
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add quote and readtokens0.
* doc/idutils.texi: Document the option.
* src/mkid.c (usage, FILES0_FROM_OPTION, long_options, help_me)
(main): Implement.
* src/xtokid.c (usage, FILES0_FROM_OPTION, long_options, help_me)
(main): Likewise.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/idutils.texi | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/idutils.texi b/doc/idutils.texi index 6ff139f..ab9040e 100644 --- a/doc/idutils.texi +++ b/doc/idutils.texi @@ -313,7 +313,18 @@ One or more file or directory names may appear in @var{names}. The file tree walker will stop short at these files and directories and their contents will not be scanned. -@end table +@itemx --files0-from=@var{FILE} +@opindex --files0-from=@var{FILE} +Rather than processing files named on the command line, process those +named in file @var{FILE}; each name is terminated by a null byte. +This is useful when the list of file names is so long that it may +exceed a command line length limitation. +One way to produce a list of null-byte-terminated file names is with +@sc{gnu} @command{find}, using its @option{-print0} predicate. Do not +specify any @var{FILE} on the command line when using this option. + + + @end table @c ************* gkm ********************************************************* @node File listing options |