Linda Walsh wrote:
it is documented, that '\ddd' or '\xHH' can be used
to match a single character of the value specified.
I don't see where it's documented to behave that way. Perhaps you're looking at
the wrong documentation?
The argument was that
a NUL in a file made it non-text -- therefore it woudln't be a "line".
Obviously -z changes the definition of a line. -z is explicitly designed to
operate on files containing NUL bytes. So that argument was not coherent.
I'm afraid you've gone off the deep end here.
I didn't bring up POSIX, Eric did.
Eric's comments didn't incorporate conspiracy theories about corporate payoffs;
yours did.
