12 Apr
2007
12 Apr
'07
2:15 p.m.
On 4/12/07, Charilaos Skiadas skiadas@hanover.edu wrote:
Anyway, here's what I said, which is I think why Robin's method won't quite work:
I guess you haven't tried it then, because it actually works fine!
The point is that $(command) strips the newline: for example
foo=$(echo hello)
puts the string "hello" (without a newline) into $foo.
Robin