Re: Command substitution with null bytes generates warning

[Eric Blake]

On 09/19/2016 11:58 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 09:28:53AM -0700, L. A. Walsh wrote:
>>    If users were relying on this behavior (I know I have scripts that read
>> things from proc -- a text interface that uses \0 to display values similar
>> to MS's multi-string Values in the Windows registry.
> 
>>    Could you change it back or provide a way to suppress "kiddy-scripter"
>> seatbelts?
> 
> wooledg@wooledg:~$ x=$(< /proc/$$/cmdline)
> bash-4.4: warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in input
> wooledg@wooledg:~$ x=$(< /proc/$$/cmdline 2>/dev/null)
> wooledg@wooledg:~$ 

Or:

$ x=$(< /proc/$$/cmdline tr -d \\0)

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