Direct/efficient way to chop off trailing \n

[Eric Blake]

On 10/01/2014 08:25 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
> You could write my solution as:
> 
> echo -n `cygpath -aw foo`>/dev/clipboard

'echo -n' is not portable (in fact, you can disable it in bash, and it
may misbehave if cygpath outputs a leading - or contains any \); it's
better to use 'printf' for that purpose:

printf %s `cygpath -aw foo`>/dev/clipboard


> The echo solution has the good property that echo is
> a shell built-in and so does not require spawning
> another process.

The same is true of printf.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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