[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/foo$ touch 1 2 3 4 5 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/foo$ foo=`ls` > > $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. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
