On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:46:57AM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: > One thing that seems to be another problem. Greg called > my attention to another printf format bug: > > %q causes printf to output the corresponding argument in > a > format that can be reused as shell input. > > Which it doesn't when nuls are involved.
An argument cannot contain a NUL byte. So it's moot.