Add --null-output
#614
Add --null-output
#614
Conversation
|
The That wasn't ideal, but we could have lived with it, because there isn't any input to However, consider the situation if we want NUL-separated output for Adding (Yes, if the user wanted newlines in output but NUL in input, they could do |
|
We allowed |
gperciva
force-pushed
the
null-output
branch
from
39f341e to
3ec409e
Compare
tar/tarsnap.1-mdoc.in
Outdated
| Filenames or patterns are separated by null characters, | ||
| not by newlines. | ||
| This is often used to read filenames output by the | ||
| .Fl print0 | ||
| option to | ||
| .Xr find 1 . | ||
| .It Fl -null-output | ||
| (list-archives mode only) | ||
| Filenames in output are separated by null characters, not by newlines. |
misc/zsh_completion/_tarsnap
Outdated
| @@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ _shtab_tarsnap__list_archives_options=( | |||
| "(- : *)"{-h,--help}"[show this help message and exit]" | |||
| "-f[specify hash of archive name to operate on (requires --hashes)]:tapehash" | |||
| "--hashes[make --list-archives print hashes]" | |||
| "--null-output[filenames in output are separated by null characters]" | |||
|
Fixed because it's true that as of this PR, A later PR will extend that to filenames as well, but we'll change the man page at that time. |
|
Right, I knew Please clean up the commits and then I'll merge. |
This should have been part of:
2023-08-30 Allow --list-archives --null
d21dff3
The --null option was previously used for reading input with -T or -X.
When we extended it to apply to --list-archives as well, we were using
it to modify the *output* behaviour.
That wasn't ideal, but we could have lived with it, because there isn't
any input to --list-archives. But suppose that we wanted to allow -T
with --list-archives --hashes (i.e. provide a filename which contains
hashes which we want to print)? The user would be stuck with either
having NUL-separated both input and output, or having newlines for both.
Adding --null-output allows the user to have different separators for
the input and output. (We can think of "--null" as "--null-input", but
we're not renaming "--null" for historical / bsdtar-compatibility reasons.)
These changes were made automatically via scripts.
|
Rebased, ready for merge. |
No description provided.