On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 15:52 Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:

** Except that $(...) trims off TRAILING newlines, so if the last
line(s) of the file are blank they'll vanish.

Ooh, good catch. I didn't realize *multiple* new lines would get chomped, either; I thought it was just the last one.