GNU Parallel Bug Reports --recend='\0' isn't interpreted as NULL character.

[Alexey Karakulov]

Hi, I can't find a way to use NULL character as record separator with --pipe. For --recend (and probably --recstart too) '\0' argument is read literally as backslash-zero.

$ echo -ne "x\0y" | ./bin/parallel --recstart '' --recend '\0' -k -N1 --pipe  cat -v \; echo

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$ echo -n "x\0y" | ./bin/parallel --recstart '' --recend '\0' -k -N1 --pipe  cat -v \; echo

x\0

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$ ./bin/parallel --version

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