On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 08:02:04PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > And this for the help text: > > -N nchars return only after storing exactly NCHARS characters, unless > EOF is encountered or read times out, ignoring any NUL or > delimiter characters
Actually, that's not good wording. It implies that NUL and delimiter characters are treated in the same way, but they aren't. -N nchars return only after storing exactly NCHARS characters, unless EOF is encountered or read times out, ignoring any NULs, and not stopping for delimiters