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Old 09-03-2008
dennis.jacob dennis.jacob is offline Forum Advisor  
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bsandeep_80 View Post
Hi dennis,

#!/bin/sh
var=$(ftp www.state.il.us << EOFFile
symphems
binary
ls
quit
EOFfile
)

This gives me the required results but the results of echo $var is as below:
11:52PM 61954 help1.zip 09-02-08 10:01PM 8153 help2.zip 09-02-08 10:01PM 1890 help3.zip

The results are in a single line.

Can you please help how i can have them one fter another.

Thanks,
Sandy

Assuming that you have only zip files in the location:


Code:
echo $var | sed 's/zip/zip\n/g'

or


Code:
echo $var | xargs -n4