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Re: Null character in replacement
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Null character in replacement |
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Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:13:27 +0200 |
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Zachary Vance <address@hidden> writes:
> sed -e "s/^$/\0/" (in bash, an s// expression containing a literal zero
> byte) performs no replacements on the stream.
A command line argument cannot contain a literal zero byte, since
argument strings are zero-terminated, and you would get an error about
an unterminated command.
$ sed -e $'s/^$/\0/'
sed: -e expression #1, char 5: unterminated `s' command
Andreas.
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