On 13/06/2560 02:54, Chet Ramey wrote: > If you want to effectively change it to a newline, specify NUL as the > line delimiter using the -d option (new in bash-4.4).
Thanks, that sounds like a clean solution! I only reverted to mapfile because $(...) command substitution could not be made to work. (I still have to 'convert' the array to a normal variable in the next step...). Would a shell option for command substitution using NUL be a desirable feature to bash users?? Peter
