06-25-2009
dosnt solve the problem :-(
Hi
thanks for the reply but it dosnt solve my problem..
there are 2 variable line_count and line_count_f
both contain the value 11 but line_count_f contains it with a return carriage.
I need a way of stripping the return carriage?
Regards
Satnam
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ECHO(1) FSF ECHO(1)
NAME
echo - display a line of text
SYNOPSIS
echo [OPTION]... [STRING]...
DESCRIPTION
NOTE: your shell may have its own version of echo which will supercede the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documenta-
tion for details about the options it supports.
Echo the STRING(s) to standard output.
-n do not output the trailing newline
-e enable interpretation of the backslash-escaped characters listed below
-E disable interpretation of those sequences in STRINGs
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
Without -E, the following sequences are recognized and interpolated:
NNN the character whose ASCII code is NNN (octal)
\ backslash
a alert (BEL)
backspace
c suppress trailing newline
f form feed
new line
carriage return
horizontal tab
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