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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash and sed compatibility Post 302830747 by Corona688 on Tuesday 9th of July 2013 12:00:05 PM
Old 07-09-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by vash
Corona
The multiline is for the sed the append command requires a new line
So remove the backslash, because, as stated above, they are preventing it from actually being multiple lines.

Code:
$ echo "a\
b\
c"

abc

$ echo "a
b
c"

a
b
c

$

Quote:
This will not solve my problem of resolving the job_nm variable any way would it ?
The problem is, simply, that variables do not expand inside single quotes.

Remove the \ from the double quotes and see if it works.
 

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LESSECHO(1)						      General Commands Manual						       LESSECHO(1)

NAME

       lessecho - expand metacharacters

SYNOPSIS

       lessecho [-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ...

DESCRIPTION

       lessecho  is  a program that simply echos its arguments on standard output.  But any metacharacter in the output is preceded by an "escape"
       character, which by default is a backslash.

OPTIONS

       A summary of options is included below.

       -ex    Specifies "x", rather than backslash, to be the escape char for metachars.  If x is "-", no escape char is used and  arguments  con-
	      taining metachars are surrounded by quotes instead.

       -ox    Specifies "x", rather than double-quote, to be the open quote character, which is used if the -e- option is specified.

       -cx    Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.

       -pn    Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.

       -dn    Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.

       -mx    Specifies "x" to be a metachar.  By default, no characters are considered metachars.

       -nn    Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.

       -fn    Specifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as an integer.

       -a     Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted.  The default is that only arguments containing metacharacters are quoted

SEE ALSO

       less(1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

       Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org.

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