Hello! Consider, please, this small script
echo 1 echo 1>"a b" echo 2 echo 2>"c\nd" echo 3 echo 3>"`echo -e 'e\nf'`" echo 4 The output is 1 2 3 4 Why is there the additional new line between 2 and 3 or 3 and 4 respectively. bash --version GNU bash, version 4.3.11(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Regards Hans