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tac RFE: accept -z, --zero-terminated option

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Message #23 received at 8103 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95 <at> gmail.com>, 8103 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8103: NUL terminated lines
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:14:31 +0100

Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> writes:

> Bjartur Thorlacius wrote:
>> On 2/24/11, Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> wrote:
>>> With GNU tac, that has never worked:
>>>
>>>     $ tac -s ''
>>>     tac: separator cannot be empty
>>>
>> NUL!=the empty string.
>
> tac treats them the same way.

Actually the shell does.  $'\0' and '' are indistinguishable once passed
as argument.

Andreas.

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