01-11-2019
@ Don...
Each element in the pseudo-array will be a ASCII number from 0 to 255 decimal the value of an 8 bit byte, (so therefore 1 to 3 characters long); a simple audio sample.
(However it could be a 2 byte word from 0 to 65535 decimal, depends how I feel; a more accurate sample if I decide.)
I used newlines as an element separator in one of my examples but any IFS value would probably be OK by me...
You mention ed and I have never, ever used it and I like the idea you put forwards so man page and www it is to see the possibiities.
Is there a limit to POSIX's number of variables, or is that limited to available real memory and element sizes?
@ Jim M...
I code for pure fun and I really love trying the _impossible_ and making languages do stuff they were not designed to do.
@ Scrutinzer...
Not in my local environment at the moment but will try your method out.
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qmail-getpw
qmail-getpw(8) System Manager's Manual qmail-getpw(8)
NAME
qmail-getpw - give addresses to users
SYNOPSIS
qmail-getpw local
DESCRIPTION
In qmail, each user controls a vast array of local addresses. qmail-getpw finds the user that controls a particular address, local. It
prints six pieces of information, each terminated by NUL: user; uid; gid; homedir; dash; and ext. The user's account name is user; the
user's uid and gid in decimal are uid and gid; the user's home directory is homedir; and messages to local will be handled by home-
dir/.qmaildashext.
In case of trouble, qmail-getpw exits nonzero without printing anything.
WARNING: The operating system's getpwnam function, which is at the heart of qmail-getpw, is inherently unreliable: it fails to distinguish
between temporary errors and nonexistent users. Future versions of getpwnam should return ETXTBSY to indicate temporary errors and ESRCH
to indicate nonexistent users.
RULES
qmail-getpw considers an account in /etc/passwd to be a user if (1) the account has a nonzero uid, (2) the account's home directory exists
(and is visible to qmail-getpw), and (3) the account owns its home directory. qmail-getpw ignores account names containing uppercase let-
ters. qmail-getpw also assumes that all account names are shorter than 32 characters.
qmail-getpw gives each user control over the basic user address and all addresses of the form user-anything. When local is user, dash and
ext are both empty. When local is user-anything, dash is a hyphen and ext is anything. user may appear in any combination of uppercase
and lowercase letters at the front of local.
A catch-all user, alias, controls all other addresses. In this case ext is local and dash is a hyphen.
You can override all of qmail-getpw's decisions with the qmail-users mechanism, which is reliable, highly configurable, and much faster
than qmail-getpw.
SEE ALSO
qmail-users(5), qmail-lspawn(8)
qmail-getpw(8)