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