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Re: [Help-bash] How not to include the trailing newline when <<< is used
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Dan Douglas |
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Re: [Help-bash] How not to include the trailing newline when <<< is used? |
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Wed, 25 May 2016 12:43:49 -0500 |
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Dan Douglas <address@hidden> wrote:
> $ ( x=a; head -c "${#x}" <<<"$x"; echo " b" )
> a b
Er... if using head then I meant this:
$ printf -v x %s%n $'\uE4' lx; head -c "$lx" <<<"$x"; echo " b"
รค b
Depends on what you want to do with the input.