Re: is there a way to use a work buffer in Linux bash? ...

[Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>]

Albretch Mueller (HE12025-12-22):
> It comes really handy whenever you need to work with a buffer of bytes more than once. No extra objects created.
> I think internally bash does have such things. Otherwise how could two strings be compared?
> As an equivalent to ANSI C's memcpy and memmove in java they use java.lang.System.arraycopy

If you need that, bash is not the right language. Why do you think you
need to do it in bash?

Regards,

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  Nicolas George