[NCLUG] bash question

[Warren Turkal]

Everyone,

Can anyone explain why the following doesn't result in a newline (0x0a)
being piped to od?

wt at pyrus:~/test/ctest$ echo -n "$(echo -ne "\n")" | od -t x1 -t a
0000000


The following works as expected:

wt at pyrus:~/test/ctest$ echo -n "
" | od -t x1 -t a
0000000 0a
         nl
0000001


Is this a bug in bash or am I just doing something silly?

wt
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