Hi Greg! > > Nevertheless, am I right that this solution relies on an undocumented > > feature? > > Which "undocumented" feature did you have in mind? Most things are > documented, somewhere. > > Are you thinking of -d '' signifying NUL as the delimiter? Chet told > us that he supports this "happy accident" and won't take it away. > > Are you thinking of the equivalence of "$array" and "${array[0]}"? I > think that's documented somewhere, but I'm not going to dig for it right > now.
Before reading the source I would never have thought that read sets variables although it returns FAILURE. Best regards Martin