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

[Pádraig Brady]

On 09/01/15 04:13, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> On Jan 8, 2015, at 21:16, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I made a few adjustments, as seen inline below.
> 
> Thank you for the clean-up and fixes. Looks much better now.
> 
>> The main change was the removal of the -z option as that's supported with -t 
>> '\0'.
> 
> I humbly do think that the '-z' is nice, add some symmetry with the other 
> utilities which support '-z' for NUL line-termination. I understand "split" 
> is not strictly a line-based utility (more like 'record-based'), but in the 
> use-cases when the separator is relevant, it is commonly used for lines.
> So if one combines it with other gnu programs (e.g. 
> find/xargs/sed/grep/sort/join/uniq) - it is '-z' almost for all of them. But 
> this is nit-picking, of course, and does add some bloat/redundancy.

maybe

> If not '-z', perhaps it's worth adding an explicit mention of the "-t '\0'" 
> method ?
> at least for other programs, the man-page clearly mentions the words 'NUL' 
> and 'zero' - giving inexperienced user a hint about what to do.

definitely. How about:

 -t, --separator=SEP
        use SEP instead of newline as record separator.
        use -t '\0' to specify the NUL (zero) character.

thanks,
Pádraig.