Re: Trailing newlines disappear

[Peter & Kelly Passchier]

On 09/06/2560 00:42, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> It's not a bug.  This is how command substitution has worked since
> the original Bourne shell.
> 
> The workaround is to put something inside the command substitution,
> so that the newlines aren't trailing any more, and then strip it away
> afterward:
> 
> foo=$(cat "$file"; printf x) foo=${foo%x}

Thanks for the reply.
Seeing the hackish workaround, I would call it an ossified (or codified)
flaw...

The workaround I came up with is:
mapfile <"$file"; IFS= foo=${MAPFILE[@]}

This seems to be faster, but it probably has other disadvantages...

Peter