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From:	Peng Yu
Subject:	Re: [Help-bash] Transform strings with special characters so that the strings don't need to be quoted?
Date:	Wed, 25 Mar 2015 20:56:58 -0500

>               %q     causes printf to output the corresponding argument in a
>                      format that can be reused as shell input.

Why $'\0' is contracted to an empty string?

printf %q $'\0'

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Peng

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