This takes a string that is then split upon like `string split`.
Unlike $IFS, the string is used as one piece, not a set of characters.
There is still a fallback to IFS if no delimiter is given, that
behaves exactly as before.
Fixes#4156.
This puts a hard upper bound of 10 MiB on the amount of data that read
will consume. This is to avoid having the shell consume an unreasonable
amount of memory, possibly causing the system to enter a OOM condition,
if the user does something non-sensical.
Fixes#3712
read_in_chunks does not clear the intermediate string 'str'
between iterations, so every chunk has every other chunk prepended
to it.
A secondary issue is that it calls str2wcstring() on an intermediate
chunk, which may split multi-byte sequences. This needs to be deferred
to the end.
Test added. Fixes#3756
The `--null` flag to `read` makes it split incoming lines on NUL instead
of newlines. This is intended for processing the output of a command
that uses NUL separators (such as `find -print0`).
Fixes#1694.
When $IFS is empty, command substitution no longer splits on newlines.
However we still want to trim off a single trailing newline, as most
commands will emit a trailing newline and it makes it harder to work
with their output.
Enhance the `read` builtin to support creating an array with the --array
flag. With --array, only a single variable name is allowed and the
entire input is tokenized and placed into that variable as an array.
Also add custom behavior if IFS is empty or unset. In that event, split
the input on every character, instead of the previous behavior of doing
no splitting at all.
