According to POSIX.1-2008 we should remove newlines only at the end of the substitution. Newlines-only substitions causes dash to remove newlines before beggining of the substitution. The following code: cat <<END 1 $(echo "") 2 END prints "1<newline>2" instead of expected "1<newline><newline>2". This patch fixes trailing newlines processing in backquote expanding. Signed-off-by: Nikolai Merinov <n.merinov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- src/expand.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/expand.c b/src/expand.c index af9cac9..1b1f95e 100644 --- a/src/expand.c +++ b/src/expand.c @@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ read: /* Eat all trailing newlines */ dest = expdest; - for (; dest > (char *)stackblock() && dest[-1] == '\n';) + for (; dest > ((char *)stackblock() + startloc) && dest[-1] == '\n';) STUNPUTC(dest); expdest = dest; -- 2.17.1