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When I do

A="$( echo -e "\nb\nc\nd\n" )"
set | grep ^A
A=$'\nb\nc\nd'


So, it does look as if the command substitution strips the whitespace at the end. Many thanks for clearing this up!!...

I have come across a weird behaviour in bash and would love to get to the bottom of it. If I execute echo -e "\na\nb\nc\n" at the command line, I get:


a
b
c

However, if I wrap it in an...