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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 6fc72ec2f..cc4d0b853 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -4229,11 +4229,15 @@ This is equivalent to @option{--all-repeated} (@option{-D}). @item prepend Output a newline before each group of repeated lines. +With @option{--zero-terminated} (@option{-z}), use +an @acronym{ASCII} @sc{nul} (zero) byte instead of a newline. @item separate Separate groups of repeated lines with a single newline. +With @option{--zero-terminated} (@option{-z}), use +an @acronym{ASCII} @sc{nul} (zero) byte instead of a newline. This is the same as using @samp{prepend}, except that -there is no newline before the first group, and hence +no delimiter is inserted before the first group, and hence may be better suited for output direct to users. @end table @@ -4261,6 +4265,19 @@ Compare at most @var{n} characters on each line (after skipping any specified fields and characters). By default the entire rest of the lines are compared. +@item -z +@itemx --zero-terminated +@opindex -z +@opindex --zero-terminated +@cindex sort zero-terminated lines +Treat the input as a set of lines, each terminated by a null character +(@acronym{ASCII} @sc{nul}) instead of a line feed +(@acronym{ASCII} @sc{lf}). +This option can be useful in conjunction with @samp{sort -z}, @samp{perl -0} or +@samp{find -print0} and @samp{xargs -0} which do the same in order to +reliably handle arbitrary file names (even those containing blanks +or other special characters). + @end table @exitstatus |