Re: any plans for command substitution that preserves trailing newlines?

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/31/21 9:34 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:

> Can someone (Chet?) confirm that the solution with adding *any*
> character and removing it later on works (i.e. with any locale and any
> valid variable content, which is, AFAIU, anything but NUL)?

If you want to append a byte and then be sure you can remove that byte
later, make sure to set the locale to "C" before removing it.

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