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  • No, but you can use -print0 and pipe to GNU sed -Ez (possibly followed by tr '\0' '\n') Commented Jun 26, 2014 at 11:38
  • Note that [a-zA-Z] only makes sense in the C/POSIX locale. Commented Jun 26, 2014 at 11:50
  • I expected the simple answer to be No given copious amounts of searching and reading man pages before asking the question. The answers provide interesting alternaive ways to achieve the desired output. Commented Jun 26, 2014 at 13:22