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in thread Adding back missing newlines between records

The -0 flag is described differently here:

http://affy.blogspot.com/p5be/ch17.htm

According to them, the -0 option is not the number of bytes to read. Instead, it's the character(in octal format) that is to be considered the end of a "line". It says 0777 is not a valid character, therefore it is never found in the file and your whole file gets slurped as one line.

Is that accurate?
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Re^5: Adding back missing newlines between records
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 06, 2009 at 12:42 UTC
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