Why do newline characters get lost when concatenating strings ending with newline characters?
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Scenario:
$ cat xxx.txt | od -c
0000000 x \n x \n
0000004
$ value=""
# 1st iteration
$ value+="$(\n after the 2nd x is lost. Why? How to prevent this?
The expected output is:
0000000 x \n x \n x \n x \n
0000007
Asked by pmor
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May 23, 2024, 10:46 AM
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