On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Craig Sanders<c...@taz.net.au> wrote: > please add a -0 option to tr, which is equivalent to > running: > > tr '\n' '\000' > > this is a useful command for converting \n-terminated input lines to > null-terminated strings suitable for feeding into 'xargs -0' as many > programs can not generate null-terminated ouput by themselves.
This doesn't really buy you anything anyway. The reasons are discussed in the documentation for xargs and find. See for example info -f find -n "Deleting Files" info -f find -n "Security Considerations for find" info -f find -n "Security Considerations for xargs" The essential point though has already been made by Bob and Andreas; this causes failures for filenames which themselves contain newlines (all Unix-like filesystems I am familiar with allow this). Where no file names contain newlines, the measure is not necessary anyway. James. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
