How can I display intermediate pipeline results for NUL-separated data?

Question

How can I combine the following two commands:

find . -print0 | grep -z pattern | tr '\0' '\n'
find . -print0 | grep -z pattern | xargs -0 my_command

into a single pipeline? If I don't need NUL separators then I can do:

find . | grep pattern | tee /dev/tty | xargs my_command

I want to avoid using a temporary file like this:

find . -print0 | grep -z pattern > tempfile
cat tempfile | tr '\0' '\n'
cat tempfile | xargs -0 my_command
rm tempfile

This question is a follow-up to these answers:

1) Using /dev/tty to display intermediate pipeline results:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/178754/8207082

2) Using a NUL-separated list of files:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/143172/8207082

Edited to use my_command instead of command.

Follow-up question:

Makefile rule that writes to /dev/tty inside a subshell?

Answer 1

You can just change the tee to point to proc sub, then do the exact same thing in there.

   find . -print0 | grep -z pattern | tee >(tr '\0' '\n' > /dev/tty) | xargs -0 command

The only issue with using tee this way, is that if the xargs command also prints to screen, then it is possible for all the output to get jumbled since both the pipe and process sub are asynchronous.

Answer 2

One of the possibilities:

find . -print0 | grep -z pattern | { exec {fd}> >(tr '\0' '\n' >/dev/tty); tee "/dev/fd/$fd"; } | xargs -0 command

Where we create a temporary file descriptor fd with exec on fly which is connected to tr's stdin via standard process substitution. tee passes everything to stdout (ending on xargs), and a duplicate to a tr subprocess that outputs to /dev/tty.