Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > On 2021/01/24 12:10, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > I completely despise that the option is called "--null". > > > > Someone was a complete idiot. > > gnu grep has both --null and -z for this (why do they do that?!). > If it's added as --null it should be added as -z too. > > Looking at Debian codesearch most things using it as --null use other > long options that we don't have. Maybe just adding as -z would be > enough. It does seem a useful and fairly widely supported feature.
Yes, maybe just add -z. > Should have been -0 to match xargs and be similar to find's -print0 > but it's too late for that now. Yes it should have been -0. But unfortunately some an uneducated idiot got involved. None of this is standardized. Unix script portability is being ruined by idiots, not just the people proposing it or writing it originally, but also the people who don't say "wrong" quickly enough. And much of this is because of intentional development silos.
