Re: Null character in replacement

Zachary Vance <[email protected]> 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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