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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Printing and redirecting files Post 302384612 by Narnie on Wednesday 6th of January 2010 02:08:04 AM
Old 01-06-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by alister
The newlines are in the value of VAR, but after the shell substitutes VAR's value, the resulting string is split into words. The characters in the value of the IFS (internal field separator) variable -- which defaults to space, tab, newline -- determine which characters delimit words. So, your newlines are used to split the string into words which are then passed to echo as its arguments. What you see is the end result is echo doing its job, which is to print each of those words separated by a space and followed by a newline.

Solution: Wrap the variable in double quotes to prevent the word splitting step from occurring.

Code:
echo "$VAR"

Regards,
alister
Wow! I feel pretty stupid now. Why didn't I think about quoting? Works like a charm. Can't wait to use this in new apps!"

Also, I' will try daptal's approach as well.

Thanks both for replying.

Happy New Year,
Narnie
 

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RBASH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  RBASH(1)

NAME
rbash - restricted bash, see bash(1) RESTRICTED SHELL
If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a filename containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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