Is there any way to write a null char into stdout using bash?

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From: Noob on 15 Mar 2010 05:15

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Arkadiy wrote:

> Xavier Roche wrote:
>
>> printf "\x00"
>> or
>> echo -en "\x00"
>
> I don't think this works -- the null character is interpreted as the
> end of the string :(

??

$ printf 'foo\0bar' | hexdump -C
00000000 66 6f 6f 00 62 61 72 |foo.bar|
00000007

Note the difference when the string is not quoted.

$ printf foo\0bar | hexdump -C
00000000 66 6f 6f 30 62 61 72 |foo0bar|
00000007

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