Oh wow, thanks a lot for that - that would be wonderful! :)
The idea of the null separated list file was to get around the issue of filenames containing newline characters. I suppose I'm being rather pedantic though...
One can always just pass these types of filenames directly though, so there's a workaround anyway.
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It seems that p7zip will try to expand wildcards in specified filenames in both the -i and -x switches, as well as list files.
For example, if I have a file named 'a*.txt' and I wish to add it to an archive, such as:
7z a -t7z a.7z 'a*.txt'
It'll end up adding every .txt file starting with 'a'.
Is there anyway to either specify a filename with a special character (without it auto expanding) or perhaps disable this wildcard expansion feature?
Maybe a nice feature would perhaps be the ability to specify a list of files that is null separated.
Peobably now there is no way to disable it.
If you add only one file you can use stdin (-si switch)
Is it common practice to use "*" in filename in your OS?
What is your OS?
Oh okay, thanks for the reply!
This is on a Linux machine.
I wouldn't say it's common practice, but when accepting arbitrary input from users, it's a case that I need to consider.
Last edit: ZiNgA BuRgA 2014-06-06
I'll add new -swd switch to disable that wildcard matching.
"list of files that is null separated" - probably I'll think about it in future.
Oh wow, thanks a lot for that - that would be wonderful! :)
The idea of the null separated list file was to get around the issue of filenames containing newline characters. I suppose I'm being rather pedantic though...
One can always just pass these types of filenames directly though, so there's a workaround anyway.
Last edit: ZiNgA BuRgA 2014-06-07