Why does $ (cmd) return \n at the end of the string?

[Erick Tucto]

Hello ... it's a bit annoying to have to remember to use the strip () function to correct the returning string ... is there a simple way to avoid it ???

Pls help.

[Gil Forsyth]

Hi Erick, 

There have been a few discussions around this in the past.  I recognize that it can take some getting used to, but we are capturing the output correctly, which does include the trailing newline unless you explicitly ask a function like `echo` to not use one.  

 ~ 🐚  $(echo 'hi')
'hi\n'
 ~ 🐚  $(echo -n 'hi')
'hi'

There's an open issue https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/2328 for discussion around adding the ability to strip only the final trailing newline.

[Morten Enemark Lund]

Hi Erick 

Also, see the command substitution shorthand $@( ) 

http://xon.sh/tutorial.html#command-substitution-with

/Morten

On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 at 21:16 Erick Tucto <erick...@outlook.com> wrote:

Hello ... it's a bit annoying to have to remember to use the strip () function to correct the returning string ... is there a simple way to avoid it ???

Pls help.

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