diff -up bash-3.2/builtins/evalfile.c.nullchar bash-3.2/builtins/evalfile.c
--- bash-3.2/builtins/evalfile.c.nullchar	2006-07-28 03:41:43.000000000 +0200
+++ bash-3.2/builtins/evalfile.c	2009-06-01 13:00:31.000000000 +0200
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ _evalfile (filename, flags)
 {
   volatile int old_interactive;
   procenv_t old_return_catch;
-  int return_val, fd, result, pflags;
+  int return_val, fd, result, pflags, i;
   char *string;
   struct stat finfo;
   size_t file_size;
@@ -174,7 +174,15 @@ file_error_and_exit:
       (*errfunc) ("%s: cannot execute binary file", filename);
       return ((flags & FEVAL_BUILTIN) ? EX_BINARY_FILE : -1);
     }
-
+  while (i < result)
+    {
+      if (string[i] == '\0')
+        {
+          memmove(&string[i], &string[i+1], result - i);
+          --result;
+        }
+      ++i;
+    }
   if (flags & FEVAL_UNWINDPROT)
     {
       begin_unwind_frame ("_evalfile");