[Gllug] Extracting substrings in bash script

[Nix]

On 7 Nov 2007, Tethys uttered the following:

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> Nix writes:
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>>The trick is to do the extraction before it hits the backticks. `` (or
>>its more recent nestable incarnation, $()), converts \n to whitespace.
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> Errr... no they don't.

Don't they?

... er. no, they don't. That's only fifteen years I've been labouring
under that misconception...

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