diff --git a/neofetch b/neofetch
index 82fb7b37..e5c48cfb 100755
--- a/neofetch
+++ b/neofetch
@@ -2799,12 +2799,9 @@ getlinebreak () {
 #
 # The 'set -f/+f' is here so that 'echo' doesn't cause any expansion
 # of special characters.
-#
-# The whitespace trim doesn't work with multiline strings so we use
-# '${1//[[:space:]]/ }' to remove newlines beofre we trim the whitespace.
 trim() {
     set -f
-    builtin echo -E ${1//$'\n'/ }
+    builtin echo -En $1
     set +f
 }