Hi,

I am reading data from file and storing it in a multiline variable. Every line is seperated with "\n" character.

globalstrval="${globalstrval}""${line}""\n"

If the value of globalstrval is like:
1234
ABCD
EFGH
WXYZ
....

If I do,
YLvar=`echo $globalstrval | grep "ABC"`
then it should return me only one line : ABCD, and it is working fine in AIX.

But when I am porting my script on Linux system, I am getting value back as "1234\nABCD\nEFGH\nWXYZ". How can I get it working on both systems? I am using /bin/su. Is there any thing to do with shell?

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,
- Ashish

Concatenate the strings like this, assuming you're using bash:

globalstrval="${globalstrval}" $'\n' "${line}"