Craig Sanders <c...@taz.net.au> writes: > GNU grep has -z and -Z options - by your reasoning above, these > convenience options are completely unecessary because you can easily > run "tr '\0' '\n'" before grep and "tr '\n' '\0'" after grep.
No, you can't. The combination of these two operations is not the identity: any NL will have been turned into a NUL. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
