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Re: bash: $() doesn't preserve new lines
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Jonathan Nieder |
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Re: bash: $() doesn't preserve new lines |
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Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:31:49 -0500 |
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Hi again,
Dmitry Baryshev wrote:
> 2011/4/14 Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
>> ? Note that 'echo' is an ordinary built-in utility, which will behave
>> in most respects like an external utility. So the expansion gets
>> passed to it as a sequence of arguments. As "help echo" does not
>> explain
>
> Yes, I believe it should mention this
>
>> (but could), it concatenates its arguments using a single
>> space as delimiter.
Sure, makes sense. Care to suggest a wording?
Thanks,
Jonathan
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