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. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."