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bug#8103: NUL terminated lines
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From: |
Andreas Schwab |
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Subject: |
bug#8103: NUL terminated lines |
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Date: |
Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:14:31 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2.94 (gnu/linux) |
Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
> Bjartur Thorlacius wrote:
>> On 2/24/11, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> With GNU tac, that has never worked:
>>>
>>> $ tac -s ''
>>> tac: separator cannot be empty
>>>
>> NUL!=the empty string.
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> tac treats them the same way.
Actually the shell does. $'\0' and '' are indistinguishable once passed
as argument.
Andreas.
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