On 7/25/21 7:43 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
I would use the more consistent option for this though, i.e.:
-z, --zero end each output line with NUL, not newline
That's a different option, no? My proposal was something that would
affect every program using --quoting-style, and it would quote
individual filenames and suchlike. The --zero option, in contrast, would
mean 'ls' would output NUL every place it normally outputs a newline as
part of the own format that it generates. These are different things.
It sounds like your approach is better than what I proposed, though.
--null makes sense, but I'm not entirely sold on having a short option
for this rarely-needed functionality. Perhaps it'd be better to add it
with just the long name for now. If it gets used a lot we could add a
short alias later.
