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• I have searched the forum and the existing issues and this hasn't already been requested.
• I have checked the latest beta and this feature doesn't already exist.

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rclone version

rclone 1.74.2

• os/version: gentoo 2.18 (64 bit)
• os/kernel: 6.18.35-gentoo-r1 (x86_64)
• os/type: linux
• os/arch: amd64
• go/version: go1.26.3-X:nodwarf5
• go/linking: dynamic
• go/tags: none

What problem are you trying to solve?

It is pretty much a Linux standard that, if you want to put a list of filenames (or indeed any strings) in a file in a really seriously robust, bullet-proof way, you do it by NUL-terminating each filename, because NUL is the only thing that can’t be part of one (for example, find -print0, xargs -0, mapfile -d'', and so on). As far as I can see from the documentation, rclone’s --files-from-raw uses newline-terminated filenames, and has no similar option, making it not fully general (e.g. if you’re trying to transfer files created by untrusted users).

How do you think rclone should be changed to solve that?

Have an option to treat the entries in a --files-from-raw file as being NUL-terminated rather than NL-terminated.

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