Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> writes: > This also got me thinking that generating zeros efficiently > would be generally useful. Piping through tr loses a lot of > the efficiency, so I was wondering about adding a -z option to yes(1) > like many other coreutils to NUL terminate each "line". > Then you could generate zeros with: yes -z ''
I can't recall a time I have ever needed it, but I am not against the idea. Would it also make sense to add a more general -d/--delimiter option? Likewise, the point being to avoid the inefficiency from piping to 'tr'. It could also accept strings instead of a character, which would make it more powerful than piping to 'tr'. Collin
