Pádraig Brady wrote: > Lasse Kliemann wrote: >> How complicated it would be to add a `-z' or `-0' switch to `comm' in order >> to allow zero-terminated "lines"? The `sort' command, for example, allows >> this, and this is very useful when dealing with filenames. >> >> Or is such functionality already provided in a different way? > > Probably in future, all coreutils filters > should take a standard option to specify NUL > as the item delimiter. > > In the meantime one can work around that, > albeit with extra data copying, using something like: > > tr '\n' '\1' | > comm | > tr '\1' '\n'
sigh, I meant the following of course: tr '\n\0' '\1\n' | comm | tr '\1\n' '\n\0' Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
