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Re: empty lines at the end of quoted command subsitutions missing


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: empty lines at the end of quoted command subsitutions missing
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:23:49 +0200
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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.

Andreas.

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