Read Embedded Newline characters with read (builtin) in KSH93
Hi Guys,
Happy New Year to you all!
I have a requirement to read an embedded new-line using KSH's read builtin.
Here is what I am trying to do:
I can take care of any embedded spaces by escaping them with a '\' in the run_sql utility and read would parse the value correctly.
However, address field can have embedded new line characters. Is there an escape sequence I can use to encode any embedded newlines, so the read command would store the new-line character in 'addr' variable?
I have tried '\n', but read doesn't recognize that escape-sequence.
Is there an option in read to accept embedded newlines? Or is there another builtin that can be used for this purpose?
Hi All
At the moment the following code works but ideally i do not want to have to change the original $1
tr "\r" "\n" < "$1" > "$1.fix"
printf "\n" >> "$1.fix"
mv "$1.fix" "$1"
FILE=$1
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