On 4/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Charilaos Skiadas</b> <<a href="mailto:skiadas@hanover.edu">skiadas@hanover.edu</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Anyway, here's what I said, which is I think why Robin's method won't quite work:</blockquote><div><br>I guess you haven't tried it then, because it actually works fine!<br><br>The point is that $(command) strips the newline: for example
<br><br> foo=$(echo hello)<br><br>puts the string "hello" (without a newline) into $foo.<br><br>Robin<br> </div><br></div>