From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 15:19:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] test-lib: add a function to compare an expection with stdout from a command
Message-ID: <5713A979.6030404@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cSOuFygsScGn_Nu0_d8mvRik1hQJuanrb-Nvw3ozyt7JQ@mail.gmail.com>

Am 17.04.2016 um 05:07 schrieb Eric Sunshine:
> Hmm, considering that $(...) collapses each whitespace run (including
> newlines) down to a single space, I don't see how you could get a
> multi-line result.

No, it doesn't. It only removes trailing newlines:

~:1004> frotz=$(echo 1; echo; echo 2; echo; echo; echo); echo "$frotz"
1

2
~:1005>

-- Hannes