On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 09:10 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > I have a tiny program called "zeroify" which reads a line from input > up to a > newline, replaced the newline with a zero byte, and pushes it out > stdout. Then I > can use the "-0" option of xargs and not worry about special > characters. You mean: tr "\012" "\0" poc