It DOES NOT happend if you do it like in my example.

I think is something related with AWK. Is it inserting carriage returns between words? This is my AWK code.

It's runned in HP-UX. swList contains a list of packages and the comand swlist gives you the same list, but with 3 or more colums:

Code:

for package in $swList; do

    # Package name
    package_name=$(swlist | grep "$package" | awk '{
    
        word_count=3
        
        while (word_count <= NF) {
            
            print $ word_count
            
             word_count++
            
        }
    }')
    
    # Package version
    package_version=$(swlist | grep "$package" | awk '{ print $2 }')
    
    echo "software^^^$oa_package_name^^^$oa_package_version^^^"

done

Help!

---------- Post updated at 04:49 AM ---------- Previous update was at 04:45 AM ----------


Thanks!

But it does not work with the string I made using that AWK code...

And there is a mistake in the code I put in my previous post. The last code line is:

Code:

echo "software^^^" "$package_name" "^^^" "$package_version" "^^^"

done

Just in case someone thought that was the problem

Regards

---------- Post updated at 05:04 AM ---------- Previous update was at 04:49 AM ----------

Well, I don't know why it happens but I have solved the problem doing the echo like this:

Code:

echo "software^^^"$(echo $oa_package_name | tr "\n" " ")"^^^$oa_package_version^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^"

tr converts the carriage return into a space character.

Regards.