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Re: document that echo can't be given a NULL
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: document that echo can't be given a NULL |
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Fri, 10 Mar 2006 13:27:20 -0500 |
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Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote:
> No way to hand echo or /bin/echo a NULL.
For /bin/echo, that's because execve() uses null-terminated strings.
For bash's builtin echo, it could be done, but then it would be
inconsistent with external commands, which might be surprising.
paul