How to read \000?

[Peng Yu]

Hi,

$ echo -ne '\000a' | { read -N 1 x; declare -p x ; }
declare -- x="a"

read just skip \000 and read the next char "a". What if I want to read
the underlying character, in this case, it is \000, then x should be
just an empty string.

Can this be achieved somehow in bash?

-- 
Regards,
Peng