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jcalvinowens 10 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Why not parse `ls` and what to do instead

Not sure how portable it is, but gnu ls has a flag to solve this problem trivially:

  --zero    end each output line with NUL, not newline

Aaron2222 10 months ago [–]

Not available in macOS `ls` unfortunately.

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