On 6/12/17 8:55 PM, Peter & Kelly Passchier wrote: > On 13/06/2560 02:54, Chet Ramey wrote: >> 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). > > Thanks, that sounds like a clean solution! > I only reverted to mapfile because $(...) command substitution could not > be made to work. (I still have to 'convert' the array to a normal > variable in the next step...). Would a shell option for command > substitution using NUL be a desirable feature to bash users??
You mean command substitution cutting off the input it reads at the occurrence of a NUL? -- ``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/