[vorbis-dev] [fwd] CVS: ogg123 rocks! vcut no so muchso...(from: wayfarer42@postmaster.co.uk)

[Kenneth C. Arnold]

On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 12:53:09AM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> 
> 
> kcarnold-vorbisdev at arnoldnet.net wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 10:00:39AM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > > > As Segher once pointed out, unix tools need no playlist support:
> > > > ogg123 `cat playlist` does the job (unless you spaces in file names, I wonder
> > > > why bash has no split-by-lines command substitution variant...).
> > >
> > > Because we already have "xargs" to handle cases like that ;)
> > 
> > xargs splits on whitespace. From what I can tell, there's no way to
> > give it an explicit delimiter, at least judging from the manpage (I
> 
> Try   xargs -0   some day ;)

Splits on null. Read a little further and you'd see that's exactly
what I'd suggested -- twice, actually -- in combination with tr to
make your preferred delimiter into null.

Haste wastes time and bits.


-- 
Kenneth Arnold <ken at arnoldnet.net>
- "Know thyself."


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