Re: read Built-in Parameter Behavior -- Null Byte Delimiter

[Greg Wooledge]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 12:09:54PM -0500, Adam Danischewski wrote:
> In the case for read -d'' very probably the user has attempted to supply
> the null delimiter, but read quietly takes the next argument. I think it
> makes sense to bump empty strings away from the option when they occur
> after options in the Bash interpreter parsing of the commandline.
> -d''  --> -d ''

I strongly disagree.  Making special exceptions in an already horrendously
complex and obtuse syntax is not progress.