On Jan 8, 2015, at 21:16, Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> 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
