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

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From: Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: NUL terminated lines
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:25:14 +0000

> Maybe we should modify tac to add the -z option.  Would you care to write a patch?
It would be redundant, as tac -s $'\0' is equivalent.

If you want to switch between newline characters dynamically (a bad
idea, IMO) you could edit libc/stdio-common/getline.c to pass read in
the newline character from an environment variable.
More preferably, you could rewrite getline to read in self-delimeted lines.

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