On Wednesday, August 27, 2025, Kevin Pulo <kevin.p...@mongodb.com> wrote: > > I now have a use case which involves various combinations of command > pipelines, > with output sometimes stored in shell variables for inspection, before > being > finally output or fed into later pipelines. Bash is well suited for this, > but > in my use case: > > 1. The text input/output protocol between the various programs is line > oriented, and sensitive to trailing newline stripping (ie. they should be > preserved). (Briefly, each line is an independent input containing zero or > more space-separated words, and an empty line with no words still means > something specific and must be processed as usual. I can go into more > detail > if required.) >
I'm not against the proposed changes here but if this were me I'd store the command output in a temporary file and inspect that instead. -- Oğuz
