On 09/06/2560 23:38, L A Walsh wrote: > Chet Ramey wrote: >> >> Should mapfile silently drop the NULs? > > Maybe add a flag to ignore NUL bytes that could be used in the 'read' > statement as well? If not specified, keep same behavior?
That sounds like it might be useful. It might be more desirable to change it to a newline instead of dropping it? (Or both, with different flags??) And how about a shell option to not omit trailing newlines in command substitutions?? I find that very undesirable and unnecessary behaviour. Peter