On 25 Nov 2009, at 16:27, Antonio Macchi wrote: >> imadev:~$ echo $'foo\0bar' >> foo > > > sorry... I'm a little bit confusing... look > > $ echo foo$'\0'bar > foobar >
I expect $'\0' expands to the C-string ''. Which then gets added to the argument after 'foo' and before 'bar'.