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From: malte@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
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To: rc@archone.tamu.edu
Subject: Re: trailing newlines

I'm not sure if I get the point, but isn't this what you want:

	x = `` ($nl) { echo $x }		# strips all newlines
or
	fn deletenl {
		* = `` ($nl) { echo $* }
		while ( ! ~ $#* 0 1 ){		# echo all args but the last
			echo $^1
			shift
		}
		echo -n `` ($nl) { echo $^1 }	# echo last arg without nl
	}
	x = `` () { deletenl $x }

To be honest, deletenl squeezes repeated nls into one.

Malte.