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Re: weird echo behaviour...
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: weird echo behaviour... |
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Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:52:04 +0200 |
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address@hidden writes:
> Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>> address@hidden:/tmp/foo$ touch 1 2 3 4 5
>> address@hidden:/tmp/foo$ foo=`ls`
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> $foo will contain the string 1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n
Actually $foo only contains `1\n2\n3\n4\n5', the trailing newline will be
chopped off by the shell.
Andreas.
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