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List:       bash-bug
Subject:    Re: empty lines at the end of quoted command subsitutions missing
From:       Chet Ramey <chet.ramey () case ! edu>
Date:       2010-07-24 15:22:21
Message-ID: 4C4B052D.9040401 () case ! edu
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On 7/24/10 3:23 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> koenig@science-computing.de writes:
> 
>> empty line(s) at the end of quoted command subsitutions are missing:
> 
> That is not a bug, but a feature.  Command subsitution generally strips
> trailing newlines from the output of the command.  If you want the
> complete output use a pipe.

This is one of the reasons I added `printf -v' to supplement v=$(command).

Chet
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