Alexander Bedard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> This appears to be a bug in echo: |> |> echo `echo` should return 2 line feeds, but it only gives one.
This has nothing to do with echo. The shell is unconditionally stripping trailing newlines from command substitutions. This is a feature, not a bug. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 N�rnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
