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Re: Here strings appends a newline
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Here strings appends a newline |
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Sun, 22 Feb 2015 15:35:51 -0500 |
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On 2/22/15 1:30 PM, Håkon Hallingstad wrote:
> I noticed that here strings (<<< word) doesn't quite follow the documented
> behavior: "The result is supplied as a single string to the command on its
> standard input." Instead, or in addition, a newline is appended to the
> string. I therefore propose to clarify this in the man page, see below for
> proposal.
Thanks for the report.
Chet
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