On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 12:02:59PM +0000, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Afaict dumping non printable characters to the terminal usually is not wanted > and should not be default. > > Posix says: > -print > The primary shall always evaluate as true; it shall cause > the current pathname to be written to standard output. > > so by filtering out these characters (e.g by replacing them with > questionmarks or their escapecodes) we would not be following posix to the > letter. But do you want to be _that_ strict?
I'm tempted to adopt the same approach as "ls" does in coreutils, which is to print a "?" for nongraphic characters if stdout is a tty. For find this, this might also logically mean changing -fprintf if the target is a terminal, too. Do other list members have opinions or thoughts? James. _______________________________________________ Bug-findutils mailing list Bug-findutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-findutils
