sysfs output without newlines
Pete Zaitcev
zaitcev at redhat.com
Tue Sep 1 18:22:30 EDT 2020
On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 09:07:42 +0000
David Laight <David.Laight at ACULAB.COM> wrote:
> The shell will remove trailing '\n' (but not '\r') from:
> foo=$(cat bar)
> So shell scripts are unlikely to be affected.
Surprisingly enough, Python is okay with this:
with open("/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward",'r') as fp:
print(int(fp.read()))
Nonetheless, I would rather no add those newlines. I saw enough
weird software that is sensitive where it's should not bee.
-- Pete
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