On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 08:27:20PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Craig Sanders <[email protected]> writes: > > > GNU grep has -z and -Z options - by your reasoning above, these > > convenience options are completely unecessary because you can easily > > run "tr '\0' '\n'" before grep and "tr '\n' '\0'" after grep. > > No, you can't. The combination of these two operations is not the > identity: any NL will have been turned into a NUL.
right. i realise my mistake now. i had thought that free software development involved, in part, some kind of collaborative interaction between users and developers. clearly wrongheaded and foolish of me to think that what is common in the free software world outside of GNU might also occur within it. now i know that any bug report or feature request for GNU tools will be responded to with nothing but a barrage of pedantic irrelevancies, creative misinterpretations of what has been said, and digressive objections that are unrelated to the actual request...all serving as excuses for doing nothing. this has been an extremely valuable learning exercise for me - i wont be wasting my time again. thank you for the lesson. craig -- craig sanders <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
