Re: read command and ascii null as delimiter

[Andreas Schwab]

"Nathan Coulter" <org.gnu.bug-bash@pooryorick.com> writes:

>>  read -d $'\0' will do most of what you want, with one limitation.  The
         ^^^^^^^^

This is actually equivalent to read -d ''.

> This doesn't seem be available in my version.  Is it a newer feature?
>
> $bash --version
> GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu)
> Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> $printf 'hello\0there' | { read -d$'\0'; echo $REPLY ; }
                                  ^^^^^^^

This is equivalent to read -d.

Andreas.

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