[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: > I was asked a question recently and I have not been able to deduce the > answer and so am appealing to the group for further education. I > could not find a match for my question in the FAQ. > > $ printf "\n" | od -tx1 > 0000000 0a > $ printf "\n" | wc -c > 1 > > But when this is used with a command substitution the newline > disappears.
Command substitution always strips trailing newlines. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
