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

[Assaf Gordon]

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.

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.

Thanks,
 - Assaf