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Re: feature request: -0 option for tr
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: feature request: -0 option for tr |
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Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:27:20 +0200 |
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Craig Sanders <address@hidden> 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.
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