Albretch Mueller (HE12025-12-22): > It comes really handy whenever you need to work with a buffer of bytes more > than once. No extra objects created. > I think internally bash does have such things. Otherwise how could two > strings be compared? > As an equivalent to ANSI C's memcpy and memmove in java they use > java.lang.System.arraycopy
If you need that, bash is not the right language. Why do you think you need to do it in bash? Regards, -- Nicolas George

