On 7/24/10 3:23 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> [email protected] 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
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