Re: Syntax Question...

[Stephane CHAZELAS]

2011-08-14, 02:43(+00), Michael Witten:
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>> Please read BashFAQ/006: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/006
>
> "no force in the universe can put NUL bytes into shell strings usefully"
>
> Ain't that the goddamn Truth!

No, zsh supports NUL bytes in its strings happily. It's even in
the default $IFS. Where NUL bytes can't go, it's in arguments
to commmands, environment variables, filenames... But I can't
see why a shell variable couldn't contain NUL bytes, it's even a
good thing for both those reasons as you can use that character
to safely separate filenames, arguments, env vars... See for
instance the -0 option of many GNU utilities.

-- 
Stephane