On 08/01/15 00:24, Assaf Gordon wrote: > Hello, > > On 01/07/2015 03:09 PM, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 01/07/2015 11:49 AM, Markus Elfring wrote: >>> Do I read the current documentation correctly in >>> the way that zero-terminated lines are not supported >>> so far? >>> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/split-invocation.html >> >> Correct. Patches welcome. In the meantime: > > attached is a quick attempt at splitting with custom line-separator '-t=SEP' > and NUL '-z' . > > It's not complete, but could be improved if this is the right direction.
Yes this is probably worth adding. Note join(1) had both -t and -z as they were setting separate delimeters. split(1) would only need one of those. No other tools allow arbitrary delimiter chars, so I'd go with just the -z, --zero-terminated option. thanks! Pádraig
