On Apr 16 2024, Carl Edquist wrote:
> Well, you _can_ shovel binary data too: (*)
>
> while IFS= read -rd '' X; do printf '%s\0' "$X"; done
>
> and use that pattern to make a shell-only version of tee(1) (and I suppose
> paste(1)). Binary data doesn't work if you're reading newline-terminat
On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 3:56 AM Andreas Schwab wrote:
>
> On Apr 16 2024, Carl Edquist wrote:
>
> > Well, you _can_ shovel binary data too: (*)
> >
> > while IFS= read -rd '' X; do printf '%s\0' "$X"; done
> >
> > and use that pattern to make a shell-only version of tee(1) (and I suppose
> >
On Tue, 16 Apr 2024, Andreas Schwab wrote:
But you can delimit your records on NULs, and use printf to reproduce
them.
Though that will likely add a spurious null at EOF.
On Tue, 16 Apr 2024, Zachary Santer wrote:
Just wouldn't copy over whatever might have followed the final null
byte, i
On 4/12/24 12:49 PM, Carl Edquist wrote:
Where with a coproc
coproc X { potentially short lived command with output; }
exec {xr}<&${X[0]} {xw}>&${X[1]}
there is technically the possibility that the coproc can finish and be
reaped before the exec command gets a chance to run and dupl
