On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:21:44 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 9/22/19 5:44 PM, Allodoxaphobia wrote: > >> In moving a bash ver. 4.3.48 (Ubuntu) program to a bash ver. 5.0.11 >> (FreeBSD) environment I encountered either a bug, a quirk, or >> an undocumented feature. > > It's not exactly undocumented, more undefined. You can't count on > the NUL character or the empty string doing anything in particular.
Thanks. The "undocumented" action made it so much easier for some coding logic in my linux/Ubuntu environement. :-) Thanks, also, to Grisha Levit for more details about the "why". Regards, Jonesy -- Marvin L Jones | Marvin | W3DHJ.net | linux 38.238N 104.547W | @ jonz.net | Jonesy | FreeBSD * Killfiling google & XXXXbanter.com: jonz.net/ng.htm