Package: coreutils
Version: 8.13-3
Severity: normal
The manual page says:
--output-delimiter=STRING
use STRING as the output delimiter the default is to use the
input delimiter
The info page has similar language. So it is clear that
--output-delimiter='' should result in an empty output delimiter.
But this is not what actually happens:
case OUTPUT_DELIMITER_OPTION:
output_delimiter_specified = true;
/* Interpret --output-delimiter='' to mean
`use the NUL byte as the delimiter.' */
output_delimiter_length = (optarg[0] == '\0'
? 1 : strlen (optarg));
output_delimiter_string = xstrdup (optarg);
break;
This special case should be documented or removed.
Ben.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii dpkg 1.16.1.2
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-8
ii libacl1 2.2.51-5
ii libattr1 1:2.4.46-5
ii libc6 2.13-24
ii libselinux1 2.1.0-4
coreutils recommends no packages.
coreutils suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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