process null-delimited input

[Nathan Coulter]

I'd like to use a bash script in a pipe to process null-delimited output:

<produce null-delimited output> | myscript > results

Since the "read" command seems to currently be unable to use ascii null as a 
delimiter, I'm using xargs to parse the file and feed to a subshell:

*** contents of myscript***

cat <&0 | xargs -0 -n2 bash -c '                                                
        if test "$(eval dirname \"$0\")" = "${1/%\/}"; then                     
                printf "remove %s which points to %s\n" "$0" "$1"               
        fi                                                                      
' 

Anyone care to suggest alternative approaches?

-- 
Nathan "pooryorick" Coulter
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