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.

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