Re: Trailing newlines disappear

[Peter & Kelly Passchier]

On 09/06/2560 23:38, L A Walsh wrote:
> Chet Ramey wrote:
>>
>>  Should mapfile silently drop the NULs?
> 
> Maybe add a flag to ignore NUL bytes that could be used in the 'read'
> statement as well?  If not specified, keep same behavior?

That sounds like it might be useful.
It might be more desirable to change it to a newline instead of dropping
it? (Or both, with different flags??)

And how about a shell option to not omit trailing newlines in command
substitutions?? I find that very undesirable and unnecessary behaviour.

Peter