For the record,
I beleive the <<< feature was introduced by the Unix port of rc
(the plan9 shell) that did *not* add the trailing newline. zsh
is the shell that brought that construct to the Bourne world and
it did add the extra newline character.
All of zsh, ksh, bash, yash add that newline.
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On 2/22/15 1:30 PM, Håkon Hallingstad wrote:
> I noticed that here strings (<<< word) doesn't quite follow the documented
> behavior: "The result is supplied as a single string to the command on its
> standard input." Instead, or in addition, a newline is appended to the
> string. I therefore propo
I noticed that here strings (<<< word) doesn't quite follow the documented
behavior: "The result is supplied as a single string to the command on its
standard input." Instead, or in addition, a newline is appended to the
string. I therefore propose to clarify this in the man page, see below for
pro
