> No way to hand echo or /bin/echo a NULL. You mean NUL, not NULL. And printf can do it.
> $ set a $'\x00' b > $ echo $# > 3 > $ echo A$'\x01'B|wc -c > 4 > $ echo A$'\x00'B|wc -c > 3 Here, command substitutions strip all NULs from the command's output. POSIX doesn't specify whether this behavior is allowed or not, but I think it makes more sense for command substitution to strip NULs than to risk the inconsistency of arguments being chopped short as they are passed through exec() calls. -- Eric Blake _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
