Re: GNU Parallel Bug Reports --recend='\0' isn't interpreted as NULL character.

[Ole Tange]

Thanks for the bugreport.

Fixed in next release.

/Ole

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Andreas Bernauer
<address@hidden> wrote:
> --regexp helps a bit, but makes things slower
>
> echo -ne "x\0y" | parallel --regexp --recstart '' --recend '\0' -k -N1
> --pipe  cat -v \; echo
> x^@
> y
>
> I'm not sure if this is what you intended, though.
>
> -Andreas
>
> On 4/30/14 11:06, Alexey Karakulov wrote:
>> Hi, I can't find a way to use NULL character as record separator with
>> --pipe. For --recend (and probably --recstart too) '\0' argument is read
>> literally as backslash-zero.
>>
>> $ echo -ne "x\0y" | ./bin/parallel --recstart '' --recend '\0' -k -N1
>> --pipe  cat -v \; echo
>> address@hidden
>>
>> $ echo -n "x\0y" | ./bin/parallel --recstart '' --recend '\0' -k -N1
>> --pipe  cat -v \; echo
>> x\0
>> y
>>
>>
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