Timeline for Why does this command to copy files in a for loop work in bash but not in zsh?
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| May 24, 2014 at 21:15 | comment | added | Stéphane Chazelas |
Yes, it case like me you wonder, it's not a bug, but an undocumented feature. The source of GNU cut (--output-delimiter is GNU only) does have code specific for that and a comment that says Interpret --output-delimiter='' to mean 'use the NUL byte as the delimiter.'
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| May 23, 2014 at 21:57 | comment | added | phemmer | @valrus I would guess that it's deliberately coded so that if you pass an empty argument, you get a NULL delimiter. Just a guess though. Man page makes no mention of the behavior. | |
| May 23, 2014 at 21:37 | comment | added | valrus |
Great answer, well explained. One further question, though: why are those NULLs in there? Is it because of the blank --output-delimiter option?
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| May 23, 2014 at 21:33 | vote | accept | valrus | ||
| May 22, 2014 at 22:17 | comment | added | Andreas Wiese | Chapéu! Nice answer, hadn't initially thought of this. | |
| May 22, 2014 at 21:39 | history | edited | phemmer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 22, 2014 at 21:34 | history | answered | phemmer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |