Re: Splitting search results from a "find -print0"

[Pádraig Brady]

On 08/01/15 00:24, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 01/07/2015 03:09 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 01/07/2015 11:49 AM, Markus Elfring wrote:
>>> Do I read the current documentation correctly in
>>> the way that zero-terminated lines are not supported
>>> so far?
>>> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/split-invocation.html
>>
>> Correct.  Patches welcome.  In the meantime:
> 
> attached is a quick attempt at splitting with custom line-separator '-t=SEP' 
> and NUL '-z' .
> 
> It's not complete, but could be improved if this is the right direction.

Yes this is probably worth adding.
Note join(1) had both -t and -z as they were setting separate delimeters.
split(1) would only need one of those.
No other tools allow arbitrary delimiter chars, so I'd
go with just the -z, --zero-terminated option.

thanks!
Pádraig