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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#49716: no -print0 for ls? |
Date: | Sun, 25 Jul 2021 08:28:06 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.11.0 |
On 7/25/21 7:43 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
I would use the more consistent option for this though, i.e.: -z, --zero end each output line with NUL, not newline
That's a different option, no? My proposal was something that would affect every program using --quoting-style, and it would quote individual filenames and suchlike. The --zero option, in contrast, would mean 'ls' would output NUL every place it normally outputs a newline as part of the own format that it generates. These are different things.
It sounds like your approach is better than what I proposed, though.--null makes sense, but I'm not entirely sold on having a short option for this rarely-needed functionality. Perhaps it'd be better to add it with just the long name for now. If it gets used a lot we could add a short alias later.
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