Re: bash 2.0.2 backquoted text includes final carriage return

[Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>]

Strange.  I get this type of behavior using the cygwin product regardless of
the binmode setting (unspecified, binmode or nobinmode).  I am using text mode
mounts which may be the cause of it working/not working.

--- "Randall R. Schulz" <rschulz@teknowledge.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The original complaint is correct. Here's what happens on Solaris under
> bash 2.0.2:
> 
> 1001> shell
> BASH=/usr/local/bin/bash; BASH_VERSION=2.01.0(1)-release
> 
> 1002> echo -n `hostname` |od -c
> 0000000   n   i   t   r   o   g   e   n
> 0000010
> 
> 
> Here's the same under Linux:
> 
> 1001> shell
> BASH=/bin/bash; BASH_VERSION=2.02.0(3)-release
> 1002> echo -n `hostname` |od -c
> echo -n `hostname` | od -c
> 0000000   t   i   t   a   n   i   u   m   .   t   e   k   n   o   w   l
> 0000020   e   d   g   e   .   c   o   m
> 0000030
> 
> 
> BTW, using $( ... ) instead of ` ... ` (my personal preference) yields the
> same results.
> 
> Lastly, on page 18 of my copy of the BASH manual (sec. 3.10.2 Command
> Substitution), it is explicitly stated that trailing newlines are removed.
> 

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