Bash (Scripting) - remove new lines from a variable

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Let's say you have a varialbe (foo in this example) that contains new lines.

foo="line 1
line 2
line 3"

 

To remove all of the new lines.

foo=${foo||$'\n'|}

 

To remove only the very last new line.

foo=${foo%$'\n'}

 

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