Re: Paste with null delimiter

2015-11-04 Thread Stephane Chazelas
2015-11-03 08:29:17 -0800, julio.ne...@gmail.com: [...] > $ paste -d "" odd even [...] Note that the portable and standard way to paste with no separator is: paste -d '\0' odd even (no, it doesn't insert NUL characters). not paste -d '' odd even which is not standard and won't work with all p

Re: Paste with null delimiter

2015-11-03 Thread Andreas Schwab
Eric Blake writes: > There is NO way for any program using getopt() or getopt_long() to know s/using getopt() or getopt_long()// Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely differe

Re: Paste with null delimiter

2015-11-03 Thread Eric Blake
[adding the list back in, with permission] On 11/03/2015 11:43 AM, Julio C. Neves wrote: > I'm sorry to disturb you. I have no problem replying to messages, so no need to apologize for disturbing me. My only problem is when messages are sent to just me instead of the public list, because then it

Re: Paste with null delimiter

2015-11-03 Thread Eric Blake
[adding the list back in with permission; please don't send private mails when the discussion may benefit others] [please don't top-post on technical lists] On 11/03/2015 11:03 AM, Julio C. Neves wrote: > Hi Eric, I wrote NUL because my english is not the best of the world, I > wanna mean "empty"

Re: Paste with null delimiter

2015-11-03 Thread Eric Blake
On 11/03/2015 01:09 PM, Dennis Williamson wrote: > On Nov 3, 2015 12:47 PM, "Julio C. Neves" wrote: >> >> Thanks Dennis, >> I know that you are rigth, but "paste -d"" odd even" and "paste -d "" odd > even" are not the same? The diference is only a space between the option > and its parameter. The

Re: Paste with null delimiter

2015-11-03 Thread Dennis Williamson
On Nov 3, 2015 12:47 PM, "Julio C. Neves" wrote: > > Thanks Dennis, > I know that you are rigth, but "paste -d"" odd even" and "paste -d "" odd even" are not the same? The diference is only a space between the option and its parameter. > > Abcs, > Julio > @juliobash > > Próximos cursos de Shell >

Re: Paste with null delimiter

2015-11-03 Thread Andreas Schwab
julio.ne...@gmail.com writes: > $ paste -d"" odd even This is the same as `paste -d odd even', so the delimiter list is odd. As there is only one file, this in turn is the same as `paste even'. Ultimately this is the same as `cat even'. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key

Re: Paste with null delimiter

2015-11-03 Thread Dennis Williamson
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:29 AM, wrote: > An example is better than thousand words: > > $ seq 1 2 9 > odd > $ seq 2 2 10 > even > $ paste -d "" odd even > 12 > 34 > 56 > 78 > 910 > $ paste -d"" odd even > 2 > 4 > 6 > 8 > 10 > > Like you can see, with no space between the option (-d) and the null

Re: Paste with null delimiter

2015-11-03 Thread Eric Blake
On 11/03/2015 09:29 AM, julio.ne...@gmail.com wrote: > An example is better than thousand words: > > $ seq 1 2 9 > odd > $ seq 2 2 10 > even > $ paste -d "" odd even > 12 > 34 > 56 > 78 > 910 > $ paste -d"" odd even This is equivalent to: paste -dodd even which is NOT the same as the NUL delimi

Paste with null delimiter

2015-11-03 Thread julio . neves
An example is better than thousand words: $ seq 1 2 9 > odd $ seq 2 2 10 > even $ paste -d "" odd even 12 34 56 78 910 $ paste -d"" odd even 2 4 6 8 10 Like you can see, with no space between the option (-d) and the null parameter (""), we have an unexpected result