>> Bash doesn't drop NULs like the >> FreeBSD (not the Bourne) shell.
one last note on bash dropping NULs: [bash ~]$ foo=`printf 'foo\0bar'` [bash ~]$ echo $foo |od -a 0000000 f o o b a r nl 0000007 > > FreeBSD sh indeed, apologies for the misstatement. > >> >> Chet >> -- >> ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer >> ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates >> Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ >> >
