On 6/9/17 1:40 PM, Peter & Kelly Passchier wrote: > 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??)
If you want to effectively change it to a newline, specify NUL as the line delimiter using the -d option (new in bash-4.4). -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/