Re: sed on binary files

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Gary V. Vaughan on 10/1/2008 10:09 PM: >> I'm working on making m4 1.6 transparently handle NUL, > > Excellent! I made an attempt to do that myself on the 2.0 branch some > years ago, but it didn't go well so I never committed... The ar

Re: sed on binary files

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 10/1/2008 11:32 PM: Hi Ralf, Gary, >> Is there any portable way to process files that contain NUL bytes? > > tr? If you only need to compare for equality, then use cmp. Equality is insufficient the way the test is c

Re: sed on binary files

* Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 02:46:38PM CEST: > > I'll add a blurb to the autoconf manual on sed mentioning that it cannot > be used on binary files (although Posix already says that), Isn't that obvious? I mean, of all classic unix text-related tools, only very few operate on non-

Re: sed on binary files

Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to Gary V. Vaughan on 10/1/2008 10:09 PM: >>> I'm working on making m4 1.6 transparently handle NUL, >> >> Excellent! I made an attempt to do that myself on the 2.0 branch some >> years ago, but it didn't go well so I never committed... > > The arg