On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am 17.04.2016 um 05:07 schrieb Eric Sunshine: >> Hmm, considering that $(...) collapses each whitespace run (including >> newlines) down to a single space, I don't see how you could get a >> multi-line result. > > No, it doesn't. It only removes trailing newlines: > > ~:1004> frotz=$(echo 1; echo; echo 2; echo; echo; echo); echo "$frotz" > 1 > > 2 > ~:1005> Thanks for the correction. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html