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Re: redirecting a file descriptor to an array variable? Possible? How? RFE?

From	Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: redirecting a file descriptor to an array variable? Possible? How? RFE?
Date	2015-11-18 13:56 -0500
Message-ID	<mailman.171.1447872999.31583.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
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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.

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Re: redirecting a file descriptor to an array variable? Possible? How? RFE? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2015-11-18 13:56 -0500

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