Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> writes:

> On 08/02/2012 07:18 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>> For bash, one solution is:
>>>
>>>     $ printf '\na\nb'|tac -rs '.\|'$(printf "\n")
>> 
>> No, command substitution strips trailing newlines.
>
> So don't make it trailing:
>
> printf '\na\nb'|tac -rs "$(printf '\n\\|.')"

It's still a useless command substitution.

Andreas.

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