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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Read Embedded Newline characters with read (builtin) in KSH93 Post 302486913 by Chubler_XL on Monday 10th of January 2011 05:44:34 PM
Old 01-10-2011
read -r in ksh93 will leave the \n as they are. You can then use echo (or printf) to translate them to the correct character:

Code:
$ echo 'Programmer\\ntest' | read -r line rest
$ set | grep line                             
line='Programmer\ntest'
$ line=$(echo $line)
$ set | grep line
line=$'Programmer\ntest'


Last edited by Chubler_XL; 01-10-2011 at 06:53 PM.. Reason: typos
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