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Re: Extra CR symbol from backticks on Cygwin 2.9.0


On 9/12/2017 9:06 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/12/2017 12:38 AM, Nikolay Melekhin wrote:
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Command-Substitution
>>
>> "...with any trailing newlines deleted." That is why I expected that
>> bash should remove trailing newlines in command substitution results,
>> which are CRLF on Windows.
> 
> No, newlines are LF.  CR are carriage returns, not newlines.
> 

Unfortunately the Google searches don't agree.  I started to make the
same exclaim but decided against it after doing a Google search for newline.

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