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Re: echo $'\0' >a does not write the nul byte


From: Eduardo Bustamante
Subject: Re: echo $'\0' >a does not write the nul byte
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 12:20:47 -0800

On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:05 PM <hans@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> wrote:
> (...)
>         The nul byte is not echoed by $'\0'.

This is expected. Bash uses NUL-byte terminated character sequences to
store strings, so it can't actually store NUL bytes themselves.

$'\0'  is the same as '' (i.e. an empty string).

If you want to output an actual NUL byte, try using:

printf '\0'

Instead



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