Re: CR/LF

[Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 10:07:48PM -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Sat, 2022-12-10 at 20:35 -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > On Sat 10 Dec 2022 at 21:01:29 (-0500), Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > > Why does this produce a CR/LF
> > > 
> > >  ~$ TEST=$(ssh -o LogLevel=QUIET -t user@server "echo -n ''"); echo ${TEST}
> > 
> > Try echo -n ${TEST} at the end.
> 
> Thanks, that works if the remote cmd produces no output, but if the
> remote cmd produces output than the -n strips the intentional CR/LF.

WOW, THAT WAS FAST!

We have now reached the point where the question has changed, so that
the newline-stripping behavior of the $() command substitution is
relevant.

There is still no CR.  At all.  Ever.  This is not Microsoft Windows.

So... what are you actually trying to do?