Re: null separated ls output option

[Kaz Kylheku (Coreutils)]

On 28.06.2017 23:31, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> [adding findutils]
> First of all, find(1) is maintained in the GNU findutils project,
> not in GNU coreutils.
>
> Redirected from:
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-06/msg00049.html
>
> On 06/28/2017 07:13 PM, Kaz Kylheku (Coreutils) wrote:
> > [ snip ... my elaborate proposal for a find -sort predicate ]
>
> 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.