On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 09:28:53AM -0700, L. A. Walsh wrote: > If users were relying on this behavior (I know I have scripts that read > things from proc -- a text interface that uses \0 to display values similar > to MS's multi-string Values in the Windows registry.
> Could you change it back or provide a way to suppress "kiddy-scripter" > seatbelts? wooledg@wooledg:~$ x=$(< /proc/$$/cmdline) bash-4.4: warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in input wooledg@wooledg:~$ x=$(< /proc/$$/cmdline 2>/dev/null) wooledg@wooledg:~$ Voila.