On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 12:09:54PM -0500, Adam Danischewski wrote: > In the case for read -d'' very probably the user has attempted to supply > the null delimiter, but read quietly takes the next argument. I think it > makes sense to bump empty strings away from the option when they occur > after options in the Bash interpreter parsing of the commandline. > -d'' --> -d ''
I strongly disagree. Making special exceptions in an already horrendously complex and obtuse syntax is not progress.
