Re: null separated ls output option

[Pádraig Brady]

On 31/05/17 15:24, address@hidden wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Please consider accepting this patch I wrote which adds a new -0 feature 
> to ls.
> 
> This emits the entries separated by null bytes (similar to 
> /proc/$PID/cmdline) which creates a completely unambiguous and simple 
> output format that doesn't involve any quotation or escaping (like ls -1 
> and ls -Q1) by using a separator which cannot occur inside a filename 
> (\0). Inside emacs eshell for example, the output is nicely human 
> readable with the null separator displayed as ^@.

Thanks for the patch.
This was previously discussed as referenced at:
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/rejected_requests.html#ls

cheers,
Pádraig.