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Re: any plans for command substitution that preserves trailing newlines?
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konsolebox |
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Re: any plans for command substitution that preserves trailing newlines? |
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Wed, 2 Jun 2021 07:25:25 +0800 |
On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 7:58 PM Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> Is the OP actually trying to store *binary* data in a shell variable?
> This is doomed to fail because you can't handle NUL bytes.
I considered this, but he did say "anything but NUL" so he's pretty
much aware. It's also another concern I didn't care caring about.
The information I contributed sufficed to what he asked.
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konsolebox