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Allow mmv to work with filenames containing spaces on stdin #1

Closed rrthomas closed 3 years ago

rrthomas commented 3 years ago

See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=149873

This looks like it could be solved with a -0 command-line option similar to xargs's.

rrthomas commented 3 years ago

Looking at it further, it's tricky: what is required is to have a file format that can be edited (so NULs are not a nice option), but that still allows any character in a filename. The only character that can't occur in a filename is slash. So, multiple slashes could be used as a delimiter (since they never occur naturally in a path). A rename could then look like:

\\OLD// => \\NEW//

It could still end in a newline, so that it would be possible to ignore non-rename newlines (specifically, those starting with a space), though the record might of course contain newlines.

An alternative approach is implemented by https://github.com/itchyny/mmv/ It is tempting simply to say "use the other mmv", but the identical name makes it tricky to install in parallel. I have opened https://github.com/itchyny/mmv/issues/13

rrthomas commented 3 years ago

Closed by removing the functionality.