Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Feature suggestion: "tla inventory -0"

[Florian Weimer]

Tom Lord wrote:

> Let's suppose that we want to modify or replace sort, cut, join, uniq, grep,
> awk, etc. to handle the extended field syntax of inventory and tla.
> It would be better to remove arbitrary restrictions on field contents
> than to replace one set of arbitrary restrictions with another.

But is it going to happen?  I don't think so.  The \0 convention for
file names is here to stay for the forseeable future.