new status output

[Steve Borho]

On Tuesday 25 October 2005 20:33, John A Meinel wrote:
> I'm not sure what the default output should be, but certainly a --null
> is useful to pipe into other commands.
> And I would say to go ahead an use "\" for escaping, except on windows
> you just don't escape at all.
> You don't have bash, find, xargs, etc on windows anyway. And if you do,
> then you would be running the shell scripting version.
>
> Does that make sense? Basically, I'm saying right the command line
> interface such that it plays well with shells. And maybe have a switch
> to turn on cmd.exe compatibility, which disables most of the shell
> friendliness.

If we do add --null like options to the status and ls commands (which I think 
is a great idea), then I suggest we allow '--print0 and -0' aliases for the 
option, as this is what most shell commands (xargs, find, etc) use for the 
same feature.

Just my $0.02, thanks.

-- 
Steve Borho
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