Inconsistent output from "notmuch search --output=<foo>"

[Michal Sojka]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Carl Worth wrote:
> Michal, in trying to add a test for that bug, I found that the current
> test suite infrastructure can't catch it because the shell's $()
> construct doesn't distinguish whether that final newline is present or
> not. I don't see an easy way to fix this, (other than making all tests
> put results into files and making test_expect_equal accept those
> filenames). Do you see any easy fix?

Unfortunately no. I did the same in
id:"1289384870-15199-1-git-send-email-sojkam1 at fel.cvut.cz"

In fact I find much easier writing
  cmd > output
  cmd2 >> output
than
  output=$(cmd)
  output+=$(cmd)

-Michal