12 Apr
2007
12 Apr
'07
2:23 p.m.
On Apr 12, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Robin Houston wrote:
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!
No I hadn't tried it ;)
The point is that $(command) strips the newline: for example
foo=$(echo hello)
puts the string "hello" (without a newline) into $foo.
Interesting. `...` seems to have the same behavior. In fact, hard as I tried I did not manage to get echo to read a newline at all ;).
Robin
Haris Skiadas Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Hanover College