Re: feature request: zero-terminated lines for comm

[Pádraig Brady]

Lasse Kliemann wrote:
> How complicated it would be to add a `-z' or `-0' switch to `comm' in order 
> to allow zero-terminated "lines"? The `sort' command, for example, allows 
> this, and this is very useful when dealing with filenames. 
> 
> Or is such functionality already provided in a different way?

Probably in future, all coreutils filters
should take a standard option to specify NUL
as the item delimiter.

In the meantime one can work around that,
albeit with extra data copying, using something like:

tr '\n' '\1' |
comm |
tr '\1' '\n'

Pádraig.