Re: null separated ls output option

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 06/29/2017 07:17 PM, Kaz Kylheku (Coreutils) wrote:
> On 28.06.2017 23:31, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>> I think the GNU toolbox already gives you enough flexibility to support
>> these edgy use cases, e.g. sorting by file size:
>>
>>   find . -printf "%s/%p\0" \
>>     | sort -zt '/' -k1,1n  \
>>     | sed -z 's,^.*/,,'
> 
> That is great. So there is nothing do here, basically; all the better.
> 
> No null-terminated patch for ls is required; GNU sort can sort the
> specially formatted null-terminated output from find.
> 
> See; it pays to have a discussion about the requirements
> before whipping up code.

Thanks, maybe I can find a nice place in find.1 or find.texi
to add such an example ... wait - there is already a similar
example:

https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_node/find_html/Updating-A-Timestamp-File.html#Updating-A-Timestamp-File

yet that doesn't work with arbitrary file names.
I have to think about it.

Have a nice day,
Berny