[arch-projects] [mkinitcpio][PATCH 09/26] functions: specify the delimiter to xargs

[Dan McGee]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
> Without specifying this, xargs will split arguments on whitespace as
> well as newlines, and will interpret quoting and backslashes. When the
> delimiter is specified, every character is taken literally and only the
> given delimiter in honored.
>
> This sidesteps issues with broken modalias files as evidenced by a
> MacBookAir3,1 or the bbs thread below:
>
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=971853
>
> Also fixes FS#25450.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <dreisner at archlinux.org>
> ---
>  functions |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/functions b/functions
> index 8ce24ea..7f9202f 100644
> --- a/functions
> +++ b/functions
> @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ auto_modules() {
>
>     IFS=$'\n' read -rd '' -a mods < \
>         <(find /sys/devices -name modalias -exec sort -u {} + |
> -        xargs modprobe -d "$BASEDIR" -aRS "$KERNELVERSION" |
> +        xargs -d $'\n' modprobe -d "$BASEDIR" -aRS "$KERNELVERSION" |
Dollar sign what? /me doesn't follow this at all, a comment would be great.

>         sort -u)
>
>     printf "%s\n" "${mods[@]//-/_}"
> --
> 1.7.6.4
>
>