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Re: reading ascii-0
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: reading ascii-0 |
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Tue, 08 Mar 2005 18:23:10 -0500 |
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Davy Durham <pubaddr2@davyandbeth.com> 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