How to use NULL (\0) as the delimiter in GNU sort

Question

i am looking for a way to sort the results of find returning a number of directories correctly for further processing in a bash script. since filenames can\'t conta

Answer 1

Use the -z option to sort zero-terminated data sets:

find ./ -maxdepth 1 -type d -iname 'xyz?' -print0 | sort -z | tr '\0' '\n'