On Sun, Dec 14, 2025 at 09:17:37 -0000, [email protected] wrote: > Add mapfile/readarray a -z streaming mode that reads NUL-delimited > input or emits NULs on demand without buffering the whole array.
This already exists: mapfile -d '' will use NUL bytes as the record
terminators instead of newlines. For output, you can use
printf '%s\0' "${array[@]}"
I don't know what you mean by "without buffering the whole array".
I didn't bother trying to read the rest of your post.
