Re: Feature request for cut and/or sort

[Bob Proulx]

Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> The Wanderer wrote:
> >However, it also had the side effect of producing null-terminated lines,
> >such that xargs could parse it cleanly even if the input contained
> >spaces. Without the ability to produce null-terminated input segments,
> >xargs will not work on most datasets.
> 
> Maybe this helps?
> <...> | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 <...>

Isn't that the same as using xargs without the -0 option? ;-)

  <...> | xargs <...>

The problem is the same as always, filenames with embedded newlines in
them.

Bob