Re: feature request: -0 option for tr

[Matthew Woehlke]

Bob Proulx wrote:
> Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> > Bob Proulx wrote:
> > > Yes.  And cursed they are but so it is. :-)
> > Oh, come on. I know all about the "inherent danger", and I still use  
> > spaces in my file names, and probably always will. It's simply easier  
> > for us humans to think that way.
>
> If you couldn't tell I was acknowledging their troubles in a
> "tongue-in-cheek" way saying that they are annoying but not really a
> terrible problem but that life would be simpler without them.

Indeed, I seem to have missed that you were being ironic. Sorry about 
that. (Also for the delay, been away from lists for a week...)

> By the way I *have* encountered files with newlines in them.  I didn't
> create them.  I want nothing to do with them.  But I have hit them
> when other people have created them.  They are possible.  They are not
> completely unknown in the wild.

Oy. My sympathies :-).

> > What about programs that only understand whitespace or NUL as  
> > delimiters?
>
> Hmm... Such as?  (thinking... not coming up with an example)

Hmm, is xargs a GNU extension? Otherwise I'd say non-GNU xargs. 
Certainly there is a good chance such programs are non-GNU :-). (I feel 
like I had an example when I wrote that, but now I can't think of it 
either.)

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Matthew
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