Re: Trimming newlines from calls to system()

* Ben Klein [2014.02.14 14:00]:
> When I echom something from the command line using system():
>     :echom system("echo \"testing\"")
> I get a ^@ (null) at the end of the result:
>     testing^@
> If I instead use echo, which doesn't translate unprintable characters but
> displays them:
>     :echo system("echo \"testing\")
> I get the result of the command line command with an added newline:
>     testing

You don't say what your operating system is, but
in a posix shell you could do:

:echo system("printf \"testing\"")

I almost never use echo in the shell. Too much of
a pain.

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JR

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