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 The FeministWiki uses LetsEncrypt to acquire digital certificates for encrypted communication.
-To ease use of the letsencrypt command, the file <code>/root/etc/domains</code> contains all the FQDNs used by the FeministWiki, one per line.  Given that, the preferred way to populate the <code>/etc/letsencrypt/live/feministwiki.org</code> directory with fresh certs is to run the following command while TCP port 80 is free (e.g. stop Apache first):
+To ease use of the letsencrypt command, the file <code>/root/etc/domains</code> contains all the FQDNs used by the FeministWiki, one per line.  Given that, the preferred way to populate the <code>/etc/letsencrypt/live/feministwiki.org</code> directory with fresh certs is to run the following commands while TCP port 80 is free (e.g. stop Apache first):
- letsencrypt certonly --authenticator standalone -d "$(tr '\n' ',' < /root/etc/domains)"
+  # Use $() to eliminate the terminating newline, if any.
+  domains=$(cat /root/etc/domains)
+  domains=$(printf '%s' "$domains" | tr '\n' ',')
+  letsencrypt certonly --authenticator standalone -d "$domains"
 Additionally, for programs that require a cert file and its private key in a single combined <code>.pem</code> file, run the following commands to generate such a file: