Re: Feature request for cut and/or sort

[Matthew Woehlke]

The Wanderer wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > The problem is the same as always, filenames with embedded newlines in
> > them.
>
> I've never seen a filename with an embedded newline, and AFAICT standard
> command-line tools cannot produce such.

Oh? ;-)
echo 'bar' > "`echo -e 'foo\nbar'`"

True, it isn't *easy* but it's certainly do-able. That said, except for 
such experiments I've never seen such files either, certainly they are 
not nearly so common as files with spaces in the name.

> For data which contains whitespace but is newline-separated, the
> suggested pipeline does seem like it would work. I appreciate the
> suggestion.

Right, that was the objective... you're welcome! :-)

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