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Re: [Help-bash] How to set IFS temporarily? (along with assignment and a
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Help-bash] How to set IFS temporarily? (along with assignment and array initiation) |
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Mon, 16 Mar 2015 14:45:30 -0400 |
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On 3/16/15 12:57 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:49:46AM -0500, Peng Yu wrote:
>> I'm trying to understand readarray. It can only separate elements by
>> newline. What about separating the elements by $'\0'? Is there an
>> option for this case (I don't find it in the man page)?
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> Unfortunately, no. That's one of my top wishlist features. If you
> want to read elements delimited by anything other than \n you have to
> use a loop.
Look at the devel branch. mapfile/readarray acquired a `-d delim' option
in early July, 2015.
Chet
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