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Re: [Help-bash] How to set IFS temporarily? (along with assignment and a
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Eric Blake |
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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 13:09:00 -0600 |
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On 03/16/2015 12:45 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> 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.
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> Look at the devel branch. mapfile/readarray acquired a `-d delim' option
> in early July, 2015.
Amazing - a patch from the future. Can you share your time machine
tricks with the rest of us? :)
[Obviously that's from 2014; I found it in commit 25a0eacf]
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