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Re: [Help-bash] Is read -d '' officially supported?


From: Ulrich Mueller
Subject: Re: [Help-bash] Is read -d '' officially supported?
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 19:47:36 +0100

>>>>> On Sun, 30 Oct 2016, Chet Ramey wrote:

> On 10/30/16 12:43 PM, Eduardo Bustamante wrote:
>> It is not documented behavior, but it is certainly relied upon by many
>> to process NUL delimited input streams:
>> http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/001
>> 
>> So I wouldn't call it undefined behavior.

> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-01/msg00121.html

I had hoped for a more straight forward answer than "You do have to
understand how C strings work and how they are used when passing
arguments to commands for it to make sense." :)

Can we rely on -d '' as supported/documented behaviour?



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