On Nov 18, 2013, at 7:33 AM, Andreas Krey <a.k...@gmx.de> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 07:11:40 +0000, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> Brother, unweaving the quotes is its own problem. You see, most >> filesystems allow single quotes and double quotes in the filenames >> themselves. Hilarity will ensue. > > Quoting is a solved problem, including quoting quotes. > > Using newlines a command argument separator because there may be spaces > in files names is a regression from accepted CLI design, and doesn't > even solve the problem of newlines in file name which filesystems also > allow. Besides, hilarity also ensues there when a file happens to be named > 'rm’.
svnmucc handles arbitrary long command line arguments with spaces if they are quoted. This is in regards to the -X command line option. Blair