Davy Durham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering if it's possible to make the build-in 'read' command > not always stop at ascii 0.
Shell variable values are null-terminated; they can't hold internal nulls. Even if bash were changed, it's still not possible to pass such values as arguments to external commands, since arguments are null-terminated for execve(). paul _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
