Re: Trailing newlines disappear

[Greg Wooledge]

On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 10:44:29PM +0200, Geir Hauge wrote:
> You can pick one of these instead:
> 
>     mapfile < "$file"; IFS= foo="${MAPFILE[*]}"; unset -v IFS
> 
> or
> 
>     mapfile < "$file"; printf -v foo %s "${MAPFILE[@]}"

or

    lambda() { local MAPFILE IFS=; mapfile < "$file"; foo="${MAPFILE[*]}"; }
    lambda