Re: how do to cmd subst with trailing newlines portable (was: does POSIX mandate whether the output…)

[Christoph Anton Mitterer via austin-group-l at The Open Group]

On Sat, 2022-01-29 at 01:00 +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> What about:
> result="$(some_command ; e=$?; print '.' && exit $e || exit 666 )"

Dammit... it's my notebook's "f" key... starts to stop working.

result="$(some_command ; e=$?; printf '.' && exit $e || exit 666 )"
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