On 7/24/10 3:23 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote: > koe...@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.
This is one of the reasons I added `printf -v' to supplement v=$(command). Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/