Re: Splitting search results from a "find -print0"

[Pádraig Brady]

On 08/01/15 02:30, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 08/01/15 00:24, Assaf Gordon wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On 01/07/2015 03:09 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>>> On 01/07/2015 11:49 AM, Markus Elfring wrote:
>>>> Do I read the current documentation correctly in
>>>> the way that zero-terminated lines are not supported
>>>> so far?
>>>> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/split-invocation.html
>>>
>>> Correct.  Patches welcome.  In the meantime:
>>
>> attached is a quick attempt at splitting with custom line-separator '-t=SEP' 
>> and NUL '-z' .
>>
>> It's not complete, but could be improved if this is the right direction.
> 
> Yes this is probably worth adding.
> Note join(1) had both -t and -z as they were setting separate delimeters.
> split(1) would only need one of those.
> No other tools allow arbitrary delimiter chars, so I'd
> go with just the -z, --zero-terminated option.

Actually thinking a bit more, the other commands using --zero
are line oriented, whereas split is not, and so could
use other chars in more cases
Consider using ^L to mark split points in text for example.
Though then you might want to support --suppress-matched
like csplit does.

Ah I just now see a TODO comment at the top of split.c
that suggests -t CHAR or -t REGEX.
Now BSD already has -p REGEX so we'd use that syntax for compat,
though let's not worry about that now of course.

Let's just go with -t CHAR for now.

thanks,
Pádraig.