On Sun, 2022-12-11 at 21:22 +0000, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > > You're misunderstanding what Greg's saying, again. He's not saying you > were given working solutions three times, he's saying you were told at > least three times that echo without -n will always produce a newline.
I believe that I have made it very clear, yesterday[1], that using or not using -n was not an option for my use-case because it produced inconsistent results depending on the cmd output. To claim that I did not, and do not, know that is disingenuous. 1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/12/msg00277.html