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Re: Bash is unable to process ASCII NUL characters
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: Bash is unable to process ASCII NUL characters |
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Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:30:45 -0400 |
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"Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote:
> Description:
> Bash is unable to process ASCII NUL characters: I cannot pass binary
> strings via a script to an application, because Bash (or readline)
> strips away the NUL characters
Are you trying to include NUL characters in command-line arguments?
The kernel prevents that; there's nothing bach can do. (It could be
done for builtins, but that might be too surprising.)
paul