On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:05:32 -0400, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> So what would be a good format?  One possibility would be to
> NULL-delimit the query part; as distasteful as I find that, this part
> of the search output isn't meant for user consumption.  Though I fear
> this is endemic to the dual role the search output currently plays as
> both user and computer readable.

Perhaps we take a queue from xargs and have a command line switch for \n
vs \0 output?

--null
-- 0
  Input items are terminated by a null character instead of by
  whitespace, and the quotes and backslash are not special (every
  character is taken lit- erally).