On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:26:37PM -0600, Davy Durham wrote:
> Hey,
> I was wondering if it's possible to make the build-in 'read' command
> not always stop at ascii 0.
>
> I've got a file "foo" with "asdf\0qwer\n" in it and when I do:
> read x < foo
> then
> echo ${#x}
> always returns 4 instead of 9 or 10 because it stopped after "asdf" at
> the null char
>
> I've played with setting $IFS, and with -r and -d on the read command
> itself, but nothing seems to work.
>
> Is this possible?
Try
x=`< foo`
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William Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Toronto, Canada
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