On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 08:58:05PM +0300, Pierre Gaston wrote: > Even if they don't realize it, few people would expect: > > var=$(wc -l file);echo "$var" > > to print 2 lines.
imadev:~$ file=$'a\nb\nc\nd\ne'; touch "$file" imadev:~$ var=$(wc -l "$file"); echo "$var" 0 a b c d e > Trailing newlines are often not that interesting. But embedded newlines certainly are! (Really, though, I know what you meant. Command substitution strips trailing newlines because that's how it has always worked, and because 95% of the time, that's what you want.)
