That brings me to another question: is there a collection of more execline utilities somewhere? I suspect the standard GNU coreutils are not quite to your liking in a lot of cases.
The execline package has all the execline-specific utilities you need to perform execline scripting (although if you have a bright idea about something that's obviously missing, please share it). GNU coreutils provide a completely different functionality, i.e. basic Unix utilities - and if you don't like them, there are a ton of other implementations of the same utilities: busybox, toybox, sbase+ubase, etc.
Would you be open to switch the default behavior? Maybe with a warning message on `-0` that it is the default and will be removed after a few releases. I suggest something like `-k` for “keep”.
I don't think the benefits of changing the default are worth the drawbacks and the effort. Again, the current default is how shell globbing works, and I think there's value in aligning with that behaviour. As long as the user has control, there's not much incentive to change. -- Laurent
