Shell question: how to preserve newlines when process output is assigned to variable?

[Lowell Gilbert]

Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> writes:

> When script has the line like this:
> VAR=$(ls)
> all newlines returned by the process (ls) are removed.

I don't think so.

If you process the variable's contents one line at a time,
you will get a separate line for each file.