Re: RFE: new syntax for command substitution to keep trailing newlines?

[pepa65]

On 28/01/2021 03.29, Léa Gris wrote:
> Now if you want to preserve all the newlines you can use an ASCII EOF
> character (formerly Ctrl + Z) that is unlikely to be part of a legit
> string:
> 
> a=$(printf $'hello\n\n\n\32'); a=${a%$'\32'}; declare -p a

When doing this there is no subshell involved so newlines are preserved:

printf -v a $'hello\n\n\n'

(I guess that wasn't your point...)

Peter