Re: Trailing newlines disappear

[Chet Ramey]

On 6/9/17 9:36 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> If anything, the fact that $() drops NUL bytes is the surprising outlier.
> But it's definitely too late to change that.  Remember how many people
> bitched and complained when 4.4 added a warning?

How could I forget? But the complaining came because they wanted the NUL-
dropping behavior (which had been in place forever) and objected to the
noise.


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