bug#8103: NUL terminated lines

2011-02-24 Thread Alan Curry
Bjartur Thorlacius writes: > > On 2/24/11, Jim Meyering wrote: > > Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > >>> 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. Note that a $'\0' argument in a shell command line

bug#8103: NUL terminated lines

2011-02-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > On 2/24/11, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: 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. >> >> Are you using a non-GNU version of tac? > I don't rem

bug#8103: NUL terminated lines

2011-02-24 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On 2/24/11, Jim Meyering wrote: > Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: >>> 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. > > Are you using a non-GNU version of tac? I don't remember whether I was using FreeBSD or

bug#8103: NUL terminated lines

2011-02-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: >> 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. Are you using a non-GNU version of tac? If so, please tell us which one -- that may influence the decision of whether to make "-