On 9/22/19 5:44 PM, Allodoxaphobia wrote: > In moving a bash ver. 4.3.48 (Ubuntu) program to a bash ver. 5.0.11 > (FreeBSD) environment I encountered either a bug, a quirk, or > an undocumented feature.
It's not exactly undocumented, more undefined. You can't count on the NUL character or the empty string doing anything in particular. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/