Re^2: perl one-liner doesn't autochomp input

Oh, damn! How I would like to front-page this! So GREAT!

Update: apart that it adds a trailing ":", which I don't like to be there :-(

Update: so do also tachyon's and keszler's solutions: the trailing ":" should not be there

Ciao!
--bronto

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Re^3: perl one-liner doesn't autochomp input by tachyon (Chancellor) on Sep 07, 2004 at 12:40 UTC
`ls\|xargs\|perl -pe 'y/ /:/'` fixes the trailing ':' issue as xargs converts the ls output into a nice space separated stream.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: perl one-liner doesn't autochomp input by halley (Prior) on Sep 07, 2004 at 13:39 UTC
As having been bitten by the spaces-in-filenames issue (again) this weekend on Mac OS X, I would like to point out that scripts need to handle filenames with spaces correctly. Don't require a space-delimited stream of filenames, or if you must, then properly handle all names by way of double-quoting and/or escaping. Sure, you can put newlines in filenames on some filesystems, too, but it is far less prevalent. Spaces occur in user files (and system files) all the time, thanks to Win95 and MacOS guis which encourage human-descriptive filenames. -- `[ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ]`	[reply]
Re^5: perl one-liner doesn't autochomp input by sintadil (Pilgrim) on Sep 07, 2004 at 17:51 UTC
As having been bitten by the spaces-in-filenames issue (again) this weekend on Mac OS X, I would like to point out that scripts need to handle filenames with spaces correctly. Or you Mac and Windows people need to stop getting creative with filenames. :) As an actual solution, you can try using `xargs -0` in such situations on OS X. Get a copy of ppt's (Gr. That should link to PPT, not to some search results!) xargs if you're on a Windows machine.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: perl one-liner doesn't autochomp input by Jasper (Chaplain) on Sep 07, 2004 at 13:39 UTC
`ls\|perl -p0le 's/\n\b/:/g'` is the same length using perl.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: perl one-liner doesn't autochomp input by abclex (Monk) on Sep 07, 2004 at 14:16 UTC
This one is quite nice! - I guess someone did his regex homework... ;)	[reply]