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Zombo
Zombo

Reputation: 1

Awk null data option

With grep, you have a --null-data option

-z, --null-data           a data line ends in 0 byte, not newline

In this way a line is a string ending with a null character, instead of a newline. Does awk have a similar option?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 294

Answers (2)

borrible
borrible

Reputation: 17346

You can set RS (the record separator) to change how awk views lines. This would be set in a similar manner to the field separator FS. Depending on the version of awk you are using you may be able to set this to NULL.

For example, 

awk '{ print $0 }' RS="\0" file

Note that this may not be portable if you are not using the GNU awk implementation.

Upvotes: 5

Gilles Quénot
Gilles Quénot

Reputation: 185025

With awk, you can use printf :

awk '/regex/{printf("%s\n\0", $0)}'

Upvotes: 0

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