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by tambourine_man 1676 days ago
Nice. I do something similar. Why null byte instead of new line?
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Asooka 1676 days ago
Presumably to support filenames with newlines in them.
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tambourine_man 1675 days ago
Yeah but… gee
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Blikkentrekker 1675 days ago
Why take the risk? I'm fairly certain I have no files with newlines on my system but I see no reason to take the risk.
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