On Apr 16 2024, Carl Edquist wrote: > Well, you _can_ shovel binary data too: (*) > > while IFS= read -rd '' X; do printf '%s\0' "$X"; done > > and use that pattern to make a shell-only version of tee(1) (and I suppose > paste(1)). Binary data doesn't work if you're reading newline-terminated > records, because you cannot store the NUL character in a shell > variable. But you can delimit your records on NULs, and use printf to > reproduce them.
Though that will likely add a spurious null at EOF. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, sch...@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."
